US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 8 for "Method and system for estimating converted-wave statics" (Saudi Arabia, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,915, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for estimating converted-wave statics" was invented by Yimin Sun (The Hague, Netherlands), Mohammed S. Mubarak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Victor Dolgov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for estimating converted-wave statics are disclosed. The methods include obtaining a multicomponent seismic dataset for a subterranean region, determining an array of PP-source statics and an array of PP-receiver statics for the PP-seismic dataset, generating a PP-receiver stack based on the PP-seismic da...