ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,749, issued on June 16, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Method for predicting a reservoir's structure, petrophysical properties, and associated uncertainty in front of a drill bit" was invented by Nestor Herman Cuevas Maldonado (Tananger, Norway), Hilde Grude Borgos (Tananger, Norway), Geir Vaaland Dahl (Tananger, Norway) and Michael Hermann Nickel (Stavanger, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a reservoir's structure, petrophysical properties, and associated uncertainty in front of a drill bit while drilling includes receiving seismic input data that is captured before d...