US Patent Issued to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA on Aug. 25 for "Automatic steering instructions for directional motor drilling" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. RE51,013, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA Inc. (Houston).

"Automatic steering instructions for directional motor drilling" was invented by Colin J. Gillan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for generating steering instructions to directing the operation of a drilling system are provided. The systems, devices, and methods may include determining an optimized path to navigate a Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) to a steering target using one or more steering methods, such as straight line projections, rotary drilling projections, True Vertical Depth, Inclination, and Azimuth (TIA...