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    This document describes a dogleg toolface angle function that constructs a curved wellbore path defined by the toolface orientation. The function takes in dogleg severity, toolface angle, and desired curve length as inputs. The toolface angle is measured from 0 to 180 degrees depending on whether the wellbore is on the high or low side. The minimum curvature around a spherical path is used to calculate departures. The relationship between dogleg angle, curve length, and dogleg severity is expressed in an equation.

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    This document describes a dogleg toolface angle function that constructs a curved wellbore path defined by the toolface orientation. The function takes in dogleg severity, toolface angle, and desired curve length as inputs. The toolface angle is measured from 0 to 180 degrees depending on whether the wellbore is on the high or low side. The minimum curvature around a spherical path is used to calculate departures. The relationship between dogleg angle, curve length, and dogleg severity is expressed in an equation.

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    This document describes a dogleg toolface angle function that constructs a curved wellbore path defined by the toolface orientation. The function takes in dogleg severity, toolface angle, and desired curve length as inputs. The toolface angle is measured from 0 to 180 degrees depending on whether the wellbore is on the high or low side. The minimum curvature around a spherical path is used to calculate departures. The relationship between dogleg angle, curve length, and dogleg severity is expressed in an equation.

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    5.

    3 Dogleg Toolface Angel

    This function constructs a dogleg-curve defined by the toolface orientation. The dogleg-curve
    is assumed to be wrapped around a sphere. The input values of this function are; dogleg
    severity (D), tool face angel (𝛾) and the desired curve length (CL).

    The tool face angel is measured from high side of the well at 0 degrees, and 180 degrees at
    low side. If the well bore has no inclination the tool face is measured from local north. Figure
    5-3 illustrates the high side of the well and shows how the toolface angel will contribute to
    azimuth change.

    Figure 5-3: Dogleg Toolface, High Side of Well (Adam T, 1991)

    Since this method is assumed to wrap around a sphere the minimum curvature has been used
    to calculate the departures. This is represented by equations 4.3 through 4.5. Since this
    method calculates a circular arc defined by the tool face angel and the radius from the dogleg,
    the following relationship between dogleg angel (𝜙) , curve length (CL) and dogleg severity
    can be expressed as: (Adam T, 1991)

    𝜙 (5.9)
    𝐷=
    𝐶𝐿

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