US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 12 for "Rate of penetration (ROP) optimization advisory system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,384, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Rate of penetration (ROP) optimization advisory system" was invented by Beshir M. Aman (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Hermann F. Spoerker (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad S. Nefai (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alexey Alexeyenko (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bader M. Otaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a drilling operation of a well in a subterranean formation is disclosed. The method includes obtaining drilling data records each including a revolutions per minute (RPM) value, a weight on bit parameter (WOB) ...