US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 25 for "Method and system for operating wells at optimum rates using orifice performance curves" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,389, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for operating wells at optimum rates using orifice performance curves" was invented by Mohammed N. Mannai (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ayedh M. Shehri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Imran Javed (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating water wells at optimum rates involves obtaining, for each of a multitude of wells, a target rate of fluid flow, obtaining, for each target rate of fluid flow, a corresponding target differential pressure using orifice performance curves stored in a database as...