US Patent Issued to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH on May 26 for "Method of and apparatus for optimizing a drilling strategy" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,937, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).

"Method of and apparatus for optimizing a drilling strategy" was invented by Noomane Keskes (Pau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for optimizing a drilling strategy during drilling of a well within a subsurface volume comprising a reservoir zone. The method comprises obtaining a trained neural network, having been trained on training data relating to the subsurface volume to infer well data from seismic data and fresh well data from a portion of said well which has been drilled. The trained neural network is further trained u...