US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 24 for "Systems and methods for notching a target wellbore in a subsurface formation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,379, issued on March 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for notching a target wellbore in a subsurface formation" was invented by Yanhui Han (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for notching a target wellbore in a subsurface formation includes a notching tool and a wellbore modelling system in communication with the notching tool. The wellbore modelling system includes a simulated notch, a simulated wellbore, a computational mesh, and a data processor. The simulated notch and the simulated wellbore are digitally positioned in the computational mesh of the wellbore mode...