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AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsSamba Ba, Juan Carlos Fernandez
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A method for steering a downhole tool to drill a wellbore in a subterranean formation includes receiving an initial wellbore plan for the downhole tool to drill through the subterranean formation. The method also includes receiving drilling data while the downhole tool is drilling through the subterranean formation using the initial wellbore plan. The method also includes comparing the initial wellbore plan to the drilling data. The method also includes determining a downlink command to transmit to the downhole tool based upon or in response to the comparison. The method also includes determining an importance of the downlink command based upon the comparison. The method also includes determining a time to transmit the downlink command to the downhole tool. The time is determined based upon the importance of the downlink command. The method also includes transmitting the downlink command to the downhole tool at the determined time.
A method for steering a downhole tool to drill a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the method comprising:
A computing system, comprising:
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.