US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 15 for "Systems and methods for analyzing multiphase production fluid" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,651, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for analyzing multiphase production fluid" was invented by Robert Adams (Houston) and Thomas Hillman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analyzing a multiphase production fluid, the system including a pipeline fluidly connected to a fluidic measurement chamber, a pressure sensor, a composite sensor, an actuating unit, and a fluidic control unit. The pipeline is configured to supply the multiphase production fluid to the fluidic measurement chamber. The composite sensor is configured to detect an oil ...