US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL on Feb. 4 for "Method and apparatus for obtaining real-time formation gas saturation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,240, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining real-time formation gas saturation" was invented by Sheng Zhan (Houston), Jeremy Zhang (Houston), Zongqi Chen (Houston) and Xianghua Liu (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a gas saturation value of a subterrain formation involves a tool having multiple dual-function detectors that detect neutrons and gamma rays. The method includes steps of emitting neutrons into the formation, detecting neutrons and gamma ray signals form the formation using the detectors, determining formation parameters ...