US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 4 for "Determining hydrocarbon production zones in a subterranean reservoir" (Saudi Arabia, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,268, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining hydrocarbon production zones in a subterranean reservoir" was invented by Waheed Syed Arshad (Mississauga, Canada) and Otto E. Meza Camargo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining one or more hydrocarbon production zones in a subterranean reservoir include generating a 3D natural fracture model that includes a 3D discrete fracture network and a brittleness model for a subterranean formation into which a wellbore is formed; converting the 3D discrete fracture network into a 2D model to determine a ...