US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 11 for "Thermal conductivity mapping from rock physics guided seismic inversion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,058, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Thermal conductivity mapping from rock physics guided seismic inversion" was invented by Husam M. AlMustafa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rudi Lubbe (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Ashfaq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Norah S. Aldossary (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modeling basin geology in a subsurface region includes receiving seismic data representing acoustic signals that are reflected from regions of the subsurface; receiving potential fields data comprising potential field values that are mapped to locations in the subsurf...