US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Jan. 20 for "Method for characterizing organic rich rock maturity and producibility" (American, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,312, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Method for characterizing organic rich rock maturity and producibility" was invented by Salah Mohammed Al-Ofi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Amer Hanif (Tomball, Texas), Elton Frost Jr. (Spring, Texas) and Frank Walles (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for identification of zones of high producibility in shale reservoirs. The method includes obtaining a Total Organic Carbon (TOC) content and an organic sulfur content of a formation interval using geochemical measurements and determining a dielectric dispersion resp...