ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,390, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Systems and methods for optimizing lateral landing for explorational environments" was invented by Abdul Muqtadir Khan (Stafford, Texas) and Gagok Imam Santoso (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein include a method that includes conducting a parametric production study for a plurality of wells during a development phase of the plurality of wells in a geological environment. The method also includes deploying information relating to the parametric study for use in design of an additional well...