US Patent Issued to NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGY USA on June 24 for "Automated steering of a drilling system using a smart bottom hole assembly" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. RE50,465, issued on June 24, was assigned to NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGY USA LLC (Houston).

"Automated steering of a drilling system using a smart bottom hole assembly" was invented by Andrew Gorrara (Sandnes, Norway), Ola Stengel (Sandnes, Norway) and Knut-arve Johnsen (Sandnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of drilling a wellbore is described using a BHA including an RSS that comprises an adjustment mechanism movable between first and second configurations to alter a drilling direction of the BHA, BHA sensor(s), and a controller. The method includes drilling, using the BHA, the wellbore with the adjustment mechanism in the...