US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Determining a three-dimensional fracability index for identifying fracable areas in a subsurface region" (Saudi Arabia, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,392, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining a three-dimensional fracability index for identifying fracable areas in a subsurface region" was invented by Otto E. Meza Camargo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rakan Alkheliwi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Waheed Syed Arshad (Mississauga, Canada), Ivan Deshenenkov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Karla Olvera (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used for identifying fracable areas. One example of a method includes receiving at least one of 3D petrophysical property and 3D geo-mechanical property ...