E - Fixed Constructions – 21 – B
Patent
E - Fixed Constructions
21
B
E21B 7/04 (2006.01) E21B 7/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2277714
A drilling direction control device, improvements in drilling direction control devices, methods for orienting a rotary drilling system, and methods for rotary drilling. The drilling direction control device includes a rotatable drilling shaft, a housing for rotatably supporting a length of the drilling shaft, and a deflection assembly contained within the housing for bending the drilling shaft between a first support location and a second support location. The deflection assembly includes an outer ring which is rotatably supported on a circular inner peripheral surface of the housing and which has a circular inner peripheral surface that is eccentric with respect to the housing. The deflection assembly also includes an inner ring which is rotatably supported on the circular inner peripheral surface of the outer ring and which has a circular inner peripheral surface which engages the drilling shaft and which is eccentric with respect to the circular inner peripheral surface of the outer ring. Methods for orienting a rotary drilling system involve communicating a desired orientation of the drilling string to a drilling direction control device and then actuating the drilling direction control device to deflect the drilling shaft to reflect the desired orientation of the drilling shaft. The desired orientation of the drilling shaft may be communicated directly to the drilling direction control device or to the drilling direction control device through a drilling string communication system.
Cargill Edward James
Comeau Laurier E.
Hardin John Ransford Jr.
Hay Richard Thomas
Maxwell Terrance Dean
Emery Jamieson Llp
Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
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