Patent ID: 8463549
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A method for geosteering during directional drilling of a wellbore, the method comprising: (a) forming an executive dashboard and presenting the executive dashboard in real-time to a display of a client device of a user; (b) presenting the executive dashboard to the user: at least a portion of received data from directional drilling equipment, at least a portion of interest in a stratigraphic cross section for user identification of: a drill bit in the stratigraphic cross section, formations in the stratigraphic cross section, other formation data, or combinations thereof; (c) identifying a projected path for the drill bit during directional drilling and presenting the projected path within the executive dashboard; (d) computing a wellbore profile for the wellbore using imported data, wherein the imported data comprises: (e) computing the stratigraphic cross section for the wellbore profile using the imported data, wherein the stratigraphic cross section comprises: (f) plotting an actual drilling path for the drill bit using the actual survey; (g) overlaying the actual drilling path onto the stratigraphic cross section in the wellbore profile, thereby enabling real-time updating of the actual drilling path; and (h) presenting control buttons to the user on the executive dashboard enabling the user to increase or decrease a member of the group consisting of: a start measured depth of the wellbore, an ending measured depth of the wellbore, a true vertical depth offset of the wellbore, a dip of the projected formation, and combinations thereof for the portion of interest in the stratigraphic cross section; and (i) wherein the stratigraphic cross section for the wellbore profile is further computed and plotted by: