US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 27 for "Methods for monitoring solids content during drilling operations" (Russian, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,937, issued on May 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for monitoring solids content during drilling operations" was invented by Sergey Safonov (Moscow), Dmitry Kovalev (Moscow) and Arturo Magana-Mora (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring solids content during drilling operations may include collecting real-time cuttings image data at a surface outlet of a natural resource well, determining cuttings characteristics data based on the real-time cuttings image data, collecting real-time surface mud data, and determining real-time, one-dimensional downhole cu...