ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,280, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Determining reservoir formation facies" was invented by Fahad A. Fayez (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Hisham Faqehi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining facies of a subterranean reservoir include identifying spectral gamma ray (SGR) logging data measured with an SGR logging tool in a wellbore that extends from a terranean surface into a subterranean reservoir included of a plurality of facies that include at least a first facies and a second facies; identifying logging data associated with a particular minera...