ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,285, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BP Corporation North America Inc. (Houston).
"Method and apparatus for identifying analog wells" was invented by Adrian O'Neill (London), Casey Denny (Houston), Jeremy Eade (Houston) and Chunlei Chu (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning a subject well includes receiving a well profile for the subject well, the well profile comprising a plurality of sets of attributes, each corresponding to one of a plurality of depths of the subject well; categorizing each of the sets of attributes as being in a first zone or in a second zone to generate a pivoted well profile, where the...