US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 11 for "Look-around/look-ahead pixel-based inversion workflow for real time prediction ahead of the bit in horizontal and high-angle wells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,353, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Look-around/look-ahead pixel-based inversion workflow for real time prediction ahead of the bit in horizontal and high-angle wells" was invented by Saad Omar (Cambridge, Mass.), Jingxuan Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lin Liang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for a method for providing look-ahead measurements ahead of a drill bit in hydrocarbon recovery operations. Embodiments use a pixel-based inversion workflow to produce real time prediction in horizontal and high-angle wells. The method includes o...