US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on Oct. 7 for "Propped fracture dimension determination based on parent/child well interactions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,628, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Propped fracture dimension determination based on parent/child well interactions" was invented by Ward E. Narhi (Kingwood, Texas) and Holger A. Meier (Montgomery, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining propped fracture dimensions for a parent well includes hydraulic fracturing a stage of a child well to form a child well fracture, as well as, during the hydraulic fracturing process, measuring, via the parent well, data that are indicative of the formation of a hydraulic connection between the wells via interaction ...