Summary
The application concerns a method of visually representing hydrocarbon well activities. This visual representation is in the form of a bar chart with each bar representing an occurrence of a well-activity and the position and length of each bar indicating timing information for that activity. Event-bars can be updated using real-time data from sensors. In one embodiment, a bar chart may be generated for a planned well with -˜expected-™ event bars based on aggregated data from past wells.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.The Hearing Officer was not convinced by the argument that the contribution was a better method of modelling well behaviour and decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, and as the presentation of information, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/524/21 198Kb