US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 10 for "Method and process to obtain relative permeability curves from downhole data" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,911, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Method and process to obtain relative permeability curves from downhole data" was invented by Salah Mohammed Al-Ofi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Hasan Kesserwan (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Abouzaid (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for obtaining depth-variant relative permeability and capillary pressure curves utilizes downhole in-situ logging data and formation testing measurements. The method involves obtaining multi-frequency dielectric data and NMR T2 data under residual water and oil saturation...