US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Anti-collision well trajectory design" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,189, issued on April 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Anti-collision well trajectory design" was invented by Xin Chen (Beijing), Qing Liu (Beijing), Lu Jiang (Beijing), XiaoWei Sheng (Beijing) and Paul Bolchover (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining trajectories for a plurality of wells while avoiding collision between wells are presented. The techniques can include determining a zone of uncertainty for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a minimum separation factor for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a gradient of a separat...