US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 17 for "Methods and systems for minimization of drilling environmental effect on acoustic signal of drill sounds" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,873, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for minimization of drilling environmental effect on acoustic signal of drill sounds" was invented by Yunlai Yang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wei Li (Beijing) and Maher I. Almarhoon (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well site may include a wellbore extending into a subsurface formation and a drilling rig with a top drive and a drive shaft to rotate a drill string extending into the wellbore. The drill string includes a drill bit at an end distal to the drilling rig to cut rock of the subsurface formati...