US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Systems and methods for incorporating compositional grading into black oil models" (Saudi Arabia, Algerian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,131, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for incorporating compositional grading into black oil models" was invented by Noureddine Rahmouni (Boumerdes, Algeria), Abdullah A. Al-Najem (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Arshad Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining an equivalent black oil model are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of determining an equivalent black oil model of a reservoir includes generating three-dimensional PVT properties using a compositional model, calculating original fluid in place and reser...