ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,011, issued on March 4, was assigned to GOSHEY ENERGY SERVICES LLC (Parker, Colo.).
"Method for estimating water saturation in gas reservoirs using acoustic log P-wave and S-wave velocites" was invented by Sheyore John Omovie (Parker, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to new systems and methods of quantifying hydrocarbon saturation using measured acoustic logs. The methods and systems herein can accurately quantify the water saturation and hydrocarbon percentage in a low resistivity low contrast shaly sand reservoir where previous methods would indicate the reservoir was wet. In an embodiment, the d...