ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,972, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"System and method for analyzing drilling events" was invented by Valerian Guillot (Montpellier, France), Alexey Ruzhnikov (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Pierre Sesboue (Montpellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing undesired drilling events in a well includes receiving input data including daily drilling reports (DDRs) related to the well. The method also includes converting respective first portions of the DDRs related to one or more undesired drilling events into vectors, each vector including an embedded s...