US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 18 for "Detecting near-surface structures" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,556, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Detecting near-surface structures" was invented by Ali Aldawood (Safwa, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Almarzoug (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for near-surface characterization through passive monitoring of rig-generated noise are disclosed. One example method includes positioning a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) cable in a spiral configuration layout around a drilling rig, where the drilling rig includes one or more pieces of drilling rig equipment, and the DAS cable includes a fiber-optic cable....