US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 14 for "Multidimensional full field development optimization guided by variability in well placement and configuration" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,283, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multidimensional full field development optimization guided by variability in well placement and configuration" was invented by Hassan Hasan Hamam (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Saad Ayidh Garni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for performing well placement and configuration. Two-dimensional (2D) target entry (TE) points are generated in an area of interest (AOI) for wells to be drilled in an oil reservoir, where the 2D TE points are positioned according to a defined wel...