US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 16 for "Well location optimizer for high inclination complex well trajectories" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,689, issued on June 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Well location optimizer for high inclination complex well trajectories" was invented by Simon A. Stewart (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for well location optimization for high inclination complex well trajectories includes calculating a thickness of a target geological layer with respect to a planned intersection angle between wellbores and the target geological layer, wherein the target geological layer comprises a known complex geology. A sensitivity of the wellbores is calculated based on res...