The Challenge Team is still working to update the Guidelines based on their latest engineering calculations. They think that the directional well can be drilled, but that attaining a near horizontal angle in this short well path will difficult, and perhaps impossible. They are re-writing …
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Proposed Webinar in November – Cancelled
This is an update to the earlier post. We did not get a response from a sufficient number of former students to allow for a thorough discussion. We will look again at organizing such a webinar in late June or early July 2019. ....................... DSATS proposes to hold a …
Drillbotics 2018-2019 Guidelines – Auto Navigation
The guidelines for the new competition have just been released. This year, students will create a "self driving BHA." The challenge is to design and build something that resembles a mud motor or a rotary steerable tool. BHGE is designing a new bit that this 1/8" larger, so there is a bit more room …
