ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,288, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Well planning and drilling service" was invented by Mark S. Passolt (Hansville, Texas), Lucian Johnston (Sugar Land, Texas) and Jean-Marc Pietrzyk (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving constraints that are specified as points in a three-dimensional coordinate system that represent a geological environment that includes a surface position and a subterranean portion of a wellsite and receiving data collected from at least one offset well that is located near the wellsite that pertain ...