US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 7 for "Automatic tying structure maps of subsurface horizons to well-derived orientation information" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,305, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automatic tying structure maps of subsurface horizons to well-derived orientation information" was invented by Yue Ma (Beijing), Xu Ji (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yubing Li (Beijing) and Yi Luo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically integrating subsurface structural maps with strike and dip information measured in subsurface wells. The method includes obtaining a seismic image volume for a subsurface region of interest and a well log for each of a plurality of wellbores penetrating ...