US Patent Issued to Opla Energy on June 3 for "Internet of things in managed pressure drilling operations" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,246, issued on June 3, was assigned to Opla Energy Ltd. (Calgary, Canada).

"Internet of things in managed pressure drilling operations" was invented by Elvin Mammadov (Calgary, Canada) and Shawn Cody (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a pressure management apparatus (PMA) of a drilling system has an onsite device in close proximity to and in communication with the PMA and an offsite device at a remote location. Both the onsite and offsite devices are connected to a network, such as the Internet, through which the devices can communicate with one another. The onsite device receives data in real-time fr...