ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,224, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Operational emissions framework" was invented by Marcos Allen (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Paul Bolchover (Beijing), Kevin Andre Hermansen (Lysaker, Norway), Ashley Bernard Johnson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Diego Medina (Beijing), Aleksandr Nifantov (Dubai, Ukraine) and Chaobo Qi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a drilling plan for drilling a wellbore at a field includes receiving data. The data includes one or more of geological properties at the field, wellbore properties, drilling tool parameters, rig character...