US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 25 for "Diagenesis-calibrated rock quality (DCRQ) determination" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,514, issued on March 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Diagenesis-calibrated rock quality (DCRQ) determination" was invented by Mohd Azizi Ibrahim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Fuad Alzayer (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Layal Nour Alhussain (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Faisal Naif Al-Enezi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining relative productivity. A thorium-uranium ratio for a region of interest is determined by a diagenesis-calibrated rock quality (DCRQ) system using exploration and production (E&P) data. A pe...