AI-ENABLED UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH (UCS) REAL-TIME PREDICTION UTILIZING LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING MEASUREMENTS

Abstract: a method for optimizing a drilling performance of a drilling operation, based process data. the method includes obtaining process data while conducting a drilling operation through a subsurface, where the drilling operation is controlled by a set of drilling parameters, and determining, with a computational model that receives the process data as input, a real-time unconfined compressive strength (ucs) of the subsurface. the method further includes determining, based on the real-time ucs of the subsurface, a drilling performance of the drilling operation, and, upon determining that the drilling performance is not optimum, adjusting one or more drilling parameters, within the set of drilling parameters, to optimize the drilling performance.

Inventor(s): Maytham I. Al Ismail, Lautaro Jeronimo Rayo Schiappacasse, Ryan Majdi Arab, Alla Wahbi, Abdullah A. Alakeely, Yacine Meridji

CPC Classification: E21B44/04 (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS)

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