US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 16 for "Three-dimensional reservoir mapping for drilling hydrocarbon wells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,886, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Three-dimensional reservoir mapping for drilling hydrocarbon wells" was invented by Khalid A Zainalabedin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ayman Elkhamry (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are for autonomous real-time 3D interactive planning and execution of well paths in a reservoir and controlling drilling of wells within the reservoir. A data processing system determines in-situ well placement based on mapping of the subsurface. The data processing system can optimize well placement based on two-dimensional (2D...