US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for predicting conditions ahead of a drill bit" (Saudi Arabia, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,618, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for predicting conditions ahead of a drill bit" was invented by Klemens Katterbauer (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdallah A. Alshehri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alberto Marsala (Venice, Italy) and Ali Abdallah Alyousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting conditions ahead of a drill bit while drilling a well involves performing, using a machine learning model, a classification of formation properties ahead of the drill bit, based on data that includes logging-while-drilling (LWD) data obta...