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Determination of the trajectory of a complex wellbore is very challenging due to the variety of possible well types, as well as the numerous complicated drilling variables and constraints. The well type could be directional wells, cluster wells, horizontal wells, extended reach wells, redrilling wells, and complex structure wells, etc. The drilling variables and constraints include wellbore length, inclination hold angles, azimuth angles, dogleg severity, true vertical depths, lateral length, casing setting depths, and true vertical depth. In this paper, we propose and develop an improved computational model based on Fibonacci sequence to adjust the quantum rotation step in quantum genetic algorithm for achieving cost-efficient complex wellbore trajectories. By using Fibonacci sequence based quantum genetic algorithm (FSQGA) in a complex searching problem, we can find high-quality globally optimal solutions with high speed through a parallel process. The simulation results show that FSQGA can significantly reduce computation complexity, and reach minimum objection values faster. Meanwhile, minimization of the true measurement depth of complex wellbore trajectory in actual gas-oil field shows that the drilling cost can be reduced up to 4.65%. We believe this new algorithm has the potential to improve drilling efficiency, to reduce the drilling time and drilling cost in real-time wellbore trajectory control.

In order to reduce the repeated work intensity of drilling personnel and the risks faced by high-risk environments during oilfield exploitation, an intelligent manipulator is introduced into the drilling platform, and a dynamic target tracking control method of the manipulator based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed in this paper. In this paper The digital twin of the manipulator is constructed in the virtual drilling simulation environment, and multi-agent parallel training is carried out using the machine learning agents(ML-Agents) framework and proximal policy optimization(PPO) algorithm. The ideal training algorithm model is deployed to the virtual manipulator on the virtual drilling platform, and the virtual and real manipulator can track the dynamic target synchronously through serial communication. The experimental results indicate that synchronous tracking of dynamic targets with virtual and real robotic arms is feasible and accurate, providing a new approach for the digital twin application in the oil and gas industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]