Patent ID: 9097096
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A computer drilling model for horizontal, lateral, and directional drilling into a stratigraphic cross section using data from a drill string, the drill string extending into the earth from a drilling rig enabling drilling operations to be adjusted in real time, change drilling direction, and staying on target within a desired formation while drilling using the stratigraphic cross section, wherein the computer drilling model comprises: a. computer instructions instructing a processor to form an executive dashboard and present the executive dashboard in real time to a display of a client device of a user via a network, enabling a drilling operator to stay within the desired formation; b. computer instructions instructing the processor to present the stratigraphic cross section to the display of the client device of the user via the network; c. computer instructions instructing the processor to present data collected from a wellbore for use on the stratigraphic cross section using a tool connected to the drill string in the wellbore, wherein the drill string extends into the wellbore and providing data from the tool connected to the drill string for overlaying the location of the drill string graphically onto the stratigraphic cross section; d. computer instructions instructing the processor to calculate a projected path for the drill string in the wellbore simultaneously in at least one dimension for the drill string during directional drilling, using the data from the wellbore and storing the projected path in a data storage and presenting the projected path in the stratigraphic cross section on the executive dashboard; e. computer instructions instructing the processor to compute in a wellbore profile for the wellbore using the data collected from the wellbore and insert the stratigraphic cross section into the wellbore profile, wherein the wellbore profile has a composite visualization of a plurality of true vertical depths; f. computer instructions instructing the processor to compute the stratigraphic cross section for the wellbore profile using the data collected from the wellbore, wherein the stratigraphic cross section comprises: g. computer instructions instructing the processor to plot an actual drilling path for the drill string within the stratigraphic cross section using an actual survey from the actual drilling path and data collected from the wellbore; h. computer instructions instructing the processor to extend the actual drilling path with the projected path to form an extension of the wellbore through the stratigraphic cross section and change the projected path in the stratigraphic cross section in the wellbore profile if the actual drilling path is off target, thereby enabling real-time updating of the actual drilling path; i. computer instructions instructing the processor to transmit the executive dashboard with the proposed extension of the wellbore through the stratigraphic cross section from a geo-steering system to the drilling rig indicating that the wellbore of the drill string operated by the drilling rig is on target or off target within the desired formation and within the stratigraphic cross section; wherein the geo-steering system further comprises: j. computer instructions instructing the processor to transmit the actual drilling path with the projected path overlaid on the stratigraphic cross section to a multidimensional simulation in the data storage and instructing the processor to select a dimensional plot of the operation of the drilling rig, thereby allowing the drilling rig to adjust the actual drilling path in real time, to change direction of drilling with the drill string and to stay on target in the desired formation within 3 to 12 hours, wherein the multi-dimensional simulation comprises: a three dimensional plot of the projected path for the drill string simultaneously as superimposed over the stratigraphic cross section, wherein the three dimensional plot has a northing as a “y” axis, an easting as an “x” axis, and a true vertical depth as a “z” axis and the actual drilling path; and k. computer instructions to present the wellbore profile graphically to the display of the client device of the user; wherein the computer instructions are stored on the data storage comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium.