US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 28 for "Determination of continuous oil density log for reservoir characterization" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,133, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determination of continuous oil density log for reservoir characterization" was invented by Yahia Ahmed Eltaher (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shouxiang Mark Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination of a continuous oil density log for a hydrocarbon reservoir accessible via a well drilling into the formation having the reservoir. The logging operations may be conducted in the well to generate a carbon-oxygen ratio (C/O) log, a water saturation log, and a porosity log. A continuous oil density log may be determined using...