NON-LINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION TOWARDS AUTOMATED DRILLING APPLICATIONS

Abstract: some implementations include a method for minimizing a ramp-up time of drilling equipment used to drill a wellbore through a subsurface formation, the method comprising: determining, via an optimization framework, an optimized ramp-up procedure for the drilling equipment with respect to one or more transient dynamics of a drilling fluid; and performing the optimized ramp-up procedure via the drilling equipment.

Inventor(s): Omer Burak Iskender, Robert P. Darbe, Zhijie Sun

CPC Classification: E21B44/00 (Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions)

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