US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 25 for "Probabilistic model calibration and estimation for drilling steering control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,900, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Probabilistic model calibration and estimation for drilling steering control" was invented by Alexander Mathew Keller (Austin, Texas), Vy Pho (Houston), Umut Zalluhoglu (Humble, Texas) and Robert P. Darbe (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a steering model may comprise estimating an initial condition for one or more variables in the steering model and calibrating the steering model with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation (MCMC). A drilling system may comprise a bottom hole assembly, a drill string connected to ...