US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Modular hydrocarbon facility placement planning system" (Lebanese, British, Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,014, issued on March 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Modular hydrocarbon facility placement planning system" was invented by Kassem Ghorayeb (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Haytham Mounji Dbouk (Beirut), Hussein Mohammad Hayek (Beirut), Ahmad Harb (Beirut), Richard Torrens (Barton Stacey, Great Britain) and Owen Wells (Beaconsfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying locations for components of a hydrocarbon production facility may involve receiving, via a processor, input data having one or more maps representative of an area, a plurality of sets of coord...