公开(公告)号：US20230193744A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US17644697

申请日：2021-12-16

Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY

Inventor： Yanhui Han ,  Kaiming Xia

IPC: E21B47/022 ,  E21B7/04 ,  E21B47/06 ,  E21B49/00

CPC classification number: E21B47/022 ,  E21B7/046 ,  E21B47/06 ,  E21B49/003 ,  E21B2200/20

Abstract: A system for determining a direction for drilling a well is disclosed. The system has a device in a portion of a conveyance mechanism comprising a cylindrical housing with at least one sensor that tracks a position of the portion during a drilling operation, the device being configured to obtain a plurality of drilling parameters, and a control system coupled to the device and configured to perform at least one reservoir simulation, and prepare a plurality of required parameters while drilling. The device uses an optimization box to simulate increasing an angle between a drilling direction and a maximum horizontal stress by calculating a minimum mud pressure required to prevent borehole collapse. The control system generates an engineering curve representative of each angle simulated and a corresponding mud weight or pressure, and the device and the control system identify an optimal direction corresponding to a minimum drilling mud pressure parameter.