US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 29 for "System and method for determining a direction for drilling a well" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,988, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for determining a direction for drilling a well" was invented by Yanhui Han (Houston) and Kaiming Xia (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a direction for drilling a well is disclosed. The system has a device in a portion of a conveyance mechanism comprising a cylindrical housing with at least one sensor that tracks a position of the portion during a drilling operation, the device being configured to obtain a plurality of drilling parameters, and a control system coupled to the device...