US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 6 for "Method and system for determining permeability and lost circulation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,543, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for determining permeability and lost circulation" was invented by Mohammed Ali Al-Malki (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mahmoud F. Abughaban (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and acquired permeability data regarding a geological region of interest. The method may further include determining, using a neural network and second NMR data, predicted permeability data regarding a predetermined formation within the geological region of interest...