ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,729, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Multiwell pad drilling framework" was invented by Peng Jin (Beijing), Qing Liu (Beijing), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Wanning Liu (Beijing), XiaoWei Sheng (Beijing), Zhenyu Chen (Beijing) and Hai Feng Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving input for a multiwell pad; selecting, based at least in part on a portion of the input, a template for the multiwell pad; generating, based at least in part on the template, well trajectories for the multiwell pad, where each of the well trajectories extends from a surface location...