ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,039, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).

"Process for defining the locations of a plurality of wells in a field, related system and computer program product" was invented by Pierre Bergey (Paris la Defense, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The process comprises positioning wells one after another in a group of potential cells of a geocellular model, each positioning of a well comprises: calculating for each cell of the group of potential cells, a fluid property insertion point driver (DFP1) representative of a fluid property maximization; calculating for each cell of the group of potent...