/Alignable Guidance Device For Casing Entry Milling And Cementing Operations
Abstract

An alignable guidance device includes a tube section and a casing milling shoe within the tube section, a pre-contoured tube within the casing milling shoe that terminates in an exit point in the tube section, the pre-contoured tube exiting the tube section at an exit angle of between 0° and 45°. The alignable guidance device also includes guidance sensors within the tube section and a guidance device EM communications system within the tube section, the guidance device EM communications system in electrical communication with the guidance sensors.

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What is claimed is:

An alignable guidance device includes a tube section and a casing milling shoe within the tube section, a pre-contoured tube within the casing milling shoe that terminates in an exit point in the tube section, the pre-contoured tube exiting the tube section at an exit angle of between 0° and 45°. The alignable guidance device also includes guidance sensors within the tube section and a guidance device EM communications system within the tube section, the guidance device EM communications system in electrical communication with the guidance sensors.
Timeline
Filed
06/02/2026
Published
09/24/2026
Granted
Not Available
IPC Codes(4)
E21B 17/14:Casing shoes
E21B 45/00:Measuring the drilling time or rate of penetration
E21B 47/13:by electromagnetic energy, e.g. of radio frequency range