ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,704, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Predicting wellbore diameters" was invented by Salahaldeen Saleh Almasmoom (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Husain Abdulhadi Alyousif (Saihat, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drilling operations can include: drilling a wellbore in a formation; generating a synthetic diameter wellbore log for the wellbore in the formation based on estimates of wellbore diameter as a function of severity impact ratings associated with drilling activities; and completing the wellbore in the formation based at least in part on the synthetic diameter wellbore lo...