US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for performing drilling rig operations" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,565, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for performing drilling rig operations" was invented by Firas Al Awam (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Sherif Khattab (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Al-Khalifa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for updating a reservoir model are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of updating a reservoir computer model includes receiving actual well data from a plurality of wells, and accessing model well data from the reservoir computer model for a plurality of modeled wells, wherein the plurality of m...