US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 9 for "Selection of simulation models using fracture information" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,261, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Selection of simulation models using fracture information" was invented by Shahzad Ali Khan (Katy, Texas), Han Young Park (Katy, Texas) and Baosheng Liang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Characteristics of a reservoir may be used to generate multiple models of the reservoir with hydraulic fractures. Simulated configurations of the hydraulic fractures in the models may be used to select one or more of the models as representative model(s) for the reservoir. The representative model(s) may be used in development of the reservoir. Hydraulic fractu...