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System and method for surface steerable drilling

  • US 10,018,028 B2
  • Filed: 02/03/2016
  • Issued: 07/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for displaying toolface orientation data, comprising:

  • receiving, by a surface steerable system coupled to a drilling rig, toolface orientation data from a bottom hole assembly (BHA) over a period of time;

    generating, responsive to the toolface orientation data, a circular chart representing current and historical toolface orientation data, the current and historical toolface orientation data represented as a circumferential arc indicator defined on the circular chart illustrating a range in degrees of the current and historical toolface orientations; and

    displaying the circular chart represent the current and historical toolface orientation data on a display associated with the surface steerable system.

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