US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology Coporation on July 22 for "Communicating with blowout preventer control system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,130, issued on July 22, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Coporation (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Communicating with blowout preventer control system" was invented by Eric Ducamin (Katy, Texas) and Joergen Kringen Johnsen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a rig control system for controlling rig equipment operable to perform drilling operations to drill a wellbore at a wellsite, and a blowout preventer (BOP) control system for controlling BOP equipment that is communicatively connected with the rig control system. The rig equipment includes a drawworks for conveying a drill string, at least one sensor operable ...