US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 4 for "Automated source rock net thickness prediction system and method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,085, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated source rock net thickness prediction system and method" was invented by Fatai A. Anifowose (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Maimona Washie (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a net source rock thickness is disclosed. The method includes obtaining at least one well log, a first and second plurality of core samples from a wellbore, and for each of the first plurality determining a relative abundance of inorganic materials, and for each of the second plurality a set of organic material da...