US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Hydrocarbon exploration and production using porosity variation prediction based on carbonate texture" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,394, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrocarbon exploration and production using porosity variation prediction based on carbonate texture" was invented by Wei Wei (Beijing), Peng Lu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yufeng Cui (Beijing), Rainer Zuhlke (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and David Tang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hydrocarbon production from a carbonate formation includes receiving a carbonate texture description of a drill cutting. A pre-defined grain fraction is assigned to the drill cutting based on the texture description. The pre-defined grain f...