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Granted Patent B2
US 12,590,526 · App. 18/818,727 · Granted Mar 31, 2026

Wellbore drill deviation handling

Inventors: Samba Ba (Houston, TX); Maja Ignova (Stonehouse, GB); Zequn Ye (Houston, TX); Si Jine Roh (Houston, TX); Vincent Abe (Stonehouse, GB); Ziad Akkaoui (Houston, TX)
Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
E21B44/00E21B7/10
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Patent No.
US 12,590,526
App. No.
18/818,727
Granted
Mar 31, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for, and method of, drill deviation handling within a stand while drilling a wellbore are presented. The techniques include: receiving, by an electronic processor and during a stand, drill state data; comparing, by the electronic processor and during the stand, the drill state data to an active drill plan; detecting, by the electronic processor and based on the comparing, an out-of-tolerance deviation of a drill parameter; and providing, by the electronic processor, an alert of the out-of-tolerance deviation.

Claims (14)

1 . A method of drill deviation handling within a stand while drilling a wellbore, the method comprising:

receiving, by an electronic processor and during a stand, drill state data, wherein the drill state data comprises at least one of: Rotary Steerable System (RSS) data, Measurement While Drilling (MWD) data, Logging While Drilling (LWD) data, and mud motor steering data;

comparing, by the electronic processor and during the stand, the drill state data to an active drill plan;

detecting, by the electronic processor and based on the comparing, an out-of-tolerance deviation among a plurality of drill parameters;

providing, by the electronic processor, an alert of the out-of-tolerance deviation, wherein the alert comprises a depiction of the plurality of drill parameters, wherein the depiction comprises an annotation of an out-of-tolerance portion;

triggering a working plan generation during the stand, wherein the triggering is performed during the stand and without attaching an additional stand to a drillstring at a surface of the wellbore; and

automatically adjusting the drilling based on the out-of-tolerance deviation, wherein the adjusting is performed during the stand and without attaching an additional stand to the drillstring at the surface of the wellbore.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising depicting the out-of-tolerance deviation in a color different from an in-tolerance portion.

3 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the active drill plan comprises specifications of a plurality of: azimuth, inclination, dogleg saturation, turn rate, build rate real time yield, toolface offset, revolutions per minute (RPM), weight on bit, rate of penetration, and flow, and wherein the comparing comprises applying a statistical control process, and

wherein the plurality of drill parameters comprises a plurality of: azimuth, inclination, dogleg saturation, turn rate, build rate, real time yield, toolface offset, revolutions per minute (RPM), weight on bit, rate of penetration, flow, toolface target, rate of penetration target, steering ratio, and dogleg severity.

4 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the depiction is of at least one of an inclination, an azimuth, a dogleg severity, a turn rate, or a build rate, and

wherein the annotation of the out-of-tolerance portion comprises a shape indicative of out-of-tolerance.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2026
From: BA, SAMBA; IGNOVA, MAJA; YE, ZEQUN; JINE ROH, SI; ABE, VINCENT; AKKAOUI, ZIAD
To: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63580045 · Sep 1, 2023
Related Publication 20250075609A1 · Mar 6, 2025
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