US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 9 for "Building natural fractures model using 3D stacked geological models" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,137, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Building natural fractures model using 3D stacked geological models" was invented by Karla Olvera Carranza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Otto Meza Camargo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The constructing of a natural fracture model of a secondary reservoir in a field by using the information from a primary reservoir within a stacked 3D geological model. A fracture model may be constructed for a primary reservoir that incorporates a specific paleo-stress regime and information from a stacked 3D geological model, a deformation mode...