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US 2012/0232873 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads
AssigneeLandmark Graphics Corporation
InventorsGary Schottle, Dan Colvin
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Abstract
Systems and methods for the automated positioning of pads and orienting of slot templates for the pads. The systems and methods also include automated adjustment of well path plans from a pad to selected well targets.
Claims20
A computer implemented method for orientating a slot template, comprising:
- computing an optimum slot assignment value for the slot template based on an initial angle using a computer processor;
- rotating the slot template by a predetermined angle to a new angle;
- computing another optimum slot assignment value for the slot template based on the new angle using the computer processor;
- repeating the steps of i) rotating the slot template by a predetermined angle to a new angle;
- and ii) computing another optimum slot assignment value until the slot template is rotated to another predetermined angle;
- identifying each new angle when the another optimum slot assignment value is less than the optimum slot assignment value;
- and
- orienting the slot template at the last identified new angle.
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A non-transitory program carrier device tangibly carrying computer executable instructions for orientating a slot template, the instructions being executable to implement:
- computing an optimum slot assignment value for the slot template based on an initial angle;
- rotating the slot template by a predetermined angle to a new angle;
- computing another optimum slot assignment value for the slot template based on the new angle;
- repeating the steps of i) rotating the slot template by a predetermined angle to a new angle;
- and ii) computing another optimum slot assignment value until the slot template is rotated to another predetermined angle;
- identifying each new angle when the another optimum slot assignment value is less than the optimum slot assignment value;
- and
- orienting the slot template at the last identified new angle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.