US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 4 for "Integrated well construction system operations" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,529, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Integrated well construction system operations" was invented by Espen Botnan (Kristiansand, Norway), Anstein Jorud (Kristiansand, Norway), Njal Aarsland (Vigrestad, Norway) and Christian Doennestad Nilssen (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated well construction system (IWCS) operable for constructing a well via integrated control of integrated control devices that collectively control integrated subsystems of the IWCS. The IWCS includes an IWCS communication network, the integrated control devices (each directly conn...