US Patent Issued to NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA on May 5 for "Robotic systems and associated automated well completion operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,318, issued on May 5, was assigned to NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA INC. (Houston).

"Robotic systems and associated automated well completion operations" was invented by Frank J. Husband (Galveston, Texas), Malini Manocha (Cypress, Texas) and Colin Oliver (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using dual-use pump systems to reduce greenhouse emissions and completion costs that includes positioning a first pump system ("FPS") and a drilling apparatus ("DA") at a first well pad and a second pump system ("SPS") at a second well pad. The method includes performing a drilling operation using the FPS and the DA on at the firs...