US Patent Issued to MHWIRTH AS on July 15 for "Drilling systems and methods" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,355, issued on July 15, was assigned to MHWIRTH AS (Kristiansand, Norway).

"Drilling systems and methods" was invented by Kim Andre Evensen (Bjorbekk, Norway) and Soeren Oeydna (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated well construction system for constructing a well includes equipment controllers which control drilling equipment, and a process controller operatively connected to the equipment controllers. The process controller includes a drilling control module which defines an operational drilling scheme and a task manager module. The operational drilling scheme has a first part to control the drilling equ...