US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 7 for "Determining source rock maturity based on hydrogen isotopes" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,140, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining source rock maturity based on hydrogen isotopes" was invented by Feng Hu Lu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer receives a measured wetness of and a measured Delta2H value associated with a test gas sample from a hydrocarbon formation. The measured wetness is a molar ratio of heavy gas compounds over a total gas within the measured sample. The computer receives calculated wetnesses calculated Delta2H values associated with a gas samples taken from one or more analogous hydrocarbon reservoirs. The measured wet...