ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,684, issued on July 29, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Numerical simulation capability for determining blockages within a wellbore and wellbore completion setups" was invented by Osman Hamid (Houston) and Hussain AlBahrani (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described in this specification relate to installing a wellbore completion setup of a wellbore based on a probability within a reservoir. The systems and methods measure one or more properties of the formation and receive data representing the one or more measured properties. The systems and methods use t...