Program helps quickly calculate deviated well path

A Basic computer program quicky calculates the angle and measured depth of a simple directional well given only the true vertical depth and total displacement of the target. The drilling literature is full of equations to calculate the course of well paths from surveys taken after a well is drilled....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Oil & gas journal Vol. 91; no. 47; pp. 79 - 80
Main Author: GARDNER, M. P
Format: Magazine Article
Language:English
Published: Tulsa, OK Pennwell 22.11.1993
Endeavor Business Media
Subjects:
02 PETROLEUM
Applications
Applied sciences
CALCULATION METHODS
COMPUTER PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
Computer programming
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Computers
Crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products
DEPTH
DESIGN
DIMENSIONS
DIRECTIONAL DRILLING
DRILLING
Drilling methods and equipments. Rocks mechanics. Directional and horizontal drilling
Drilling. Casing. Preparing wells for production
Energy
Engineering
EQUATIONS
Exact sciences and technology
Fuels
Geologists
Mathematical models
OIL WELLS
Prospecting and production of crude oil, natural gas, oil shales and tar sands
Simulation
Software
Trigonometry
WELLS 020300 > Petroleum > Drilling & Production
Drilling
Trajectory
Computer program
Slant hole
Directional drilling
Microcomputer
ISSN:0030-1388, 1944-9151
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A Basic computer program quicky calculates the angle and measured depth of a simple directional well given only the true vertical depth and total displacement of the target. The drilling literature is full of equations to calculate the course of well paths from surveys taken after a well is drilled. Very little information, however, covers how to calculate well bore trajectories for proposed wells from limited data. The computer program presented can be run on an IBM-compatible computer with MS-DOS version 5 or higher, QBasic, or any Basic that does not require line numbers. QBasic 4.5 compiler will also run the program. The equations are based on conventional geometry and trigonometry.
Bibliography:content type line 24
ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Magazines-1
None
ISSN:0030-1388
1944-9151