US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Estimation of dielectric properties of a downhole fluid" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,202, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston) and SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Estimation of dielectric properties of a downhole fluid" was invented by Salah Mohammed Al-Ofi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Guodong Jin (Katy, Texas) and Shouxiang Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a downhole fluid includes performing measurements of a dielectric property of the downhole fluid, the downhole fluid including a mixture of a filtrate fluid circulated through a borehole and a connate fluid. The measurements include a first measurement of the do...