Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Downhole steering system
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Application No.: US14838315Application Date: 2015-08-27
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Publication No.: US10066448B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Edward George Parkin , Steven Hough , Miguel Marcel Jose Delgado , Junichi Sugiura
- Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Main IPC: E21B7/06
- IPC: E21B7/06 ; E21B17/10

Abstract:
A technique facilitates drilling of deviated boreholes. The technique employs a drilling system which may be disposed along a drill string. The drilling system may be used to drill a straight section of a borehole along a straight borehole axis and to also selectively drill a deviated section of the borehole. The drilling system comprises a housing, a bit shaft rotatably mounted in the housing, and an actuator which may be selectively actuated to shift the bit shaft to another position with respect to the straight borehole axis. The actuator is selectively shiftable between an unbiased mode and a biased mode. In the unbiased mode, the bit shaft axis is in a first position with respect to the straight borehole axis during drilling of the straight section of borehole. The actuator may be selectively shifted to the biased mode in which the bit shaft axis is shifted off axis relative to the straight borehole axis to enable drilling of the desired deviated section of the borehole.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160060960A1 Downhole Steering System Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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