US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 28 for "Reservoir and production simulation using asphaltene onset pressure map" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,492, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Reservoir and production simulation using asphaltene onset pressure map" was invented by Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, Texas), Rohin Naveena-Chandran (Houston) and Anthony Herman VanZuilekom (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore, taking a plurality of fluid samples with the fluid sampling tool, identifying a plurality of asphaltene onset pressures (AOP) downhole based at the least on the plurality of fluid samples. The method may further comprise forming an AOP map from at l...