US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 24 for "Monitoring a drill string controlled by a drilling program" (Saudi Arabia, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,401, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Monitoring a drill string controlled by a drilling program" was invented by Krzysztof Karol Machocki (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Arturo Magana-Mora (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Chinthaka Gooneratne (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a drill string controlled by a drilling program may include a contactless sensor arranged to capture data associated with a parameter at a position along a drill line associated with the drill string of a drilling system. The system may include a processor operatively conn...