ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,129, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY (Stavanger, Norway).
"Reservoir fluid mapping in mature fields" was invented by Tao Yang (Stavanger, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mapping reservoir fluid in a mature field includes identifying a region of interest within a hydrocarbon field, drilling a plurality of production wells through the region of interest, and collecting mud gas data as each production well is drilled. This mud gas data is used to generate a reservoir fluid property log, such as gas-oil ratio log, along a length of each of the production wells, which is in turn used to generate a refin...