ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,543, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Gas and water breakthrough detection" was invented by Ammal F. Al-Anazi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Wenrong Mei (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example computer-implemented methods and systems for gas and water breakthrough detection in producing wells. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving flow rate measurement data of produced gas and produced oil of a producing well in a subsurface reservoir. Composition measurement data of the produced gas and the produced oil are received. An occurrence of a produc...