US Patent Issued to Hydrophilic AS on July 22 for "Sensor assembly and system, and a method of determining the free water level in a hydrocarbon reservoir" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,159, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hydrophilic AS (Tananger, Norway).

"Sensor assembly and system, and a method of determining the free water level in a hydrocarbon reservoir" was invented by Trond Arne Rolfsvag (Tananger, Norway), Harald Syse (Royneberg, Norway), Oivind Godager (Sandefjord, Norway), Solveig Riisoen (Olsvik, Norway) and Kjetil Ormark Cleveland (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system and method for determining the vertical distance between a location (L) in a hydrocarbon reservoir (R) in a subterranean formation (F) and the free water level (FWL) in said reservoir. A sensor assembly (10;...