US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Fluorescent metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for drilling depth correlation and waterfront mapping" (Saudi Arabia, Italian, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,447, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Fluorescent metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for drilling depth correlation and waterfront mapping" was invented by Vera Solovyeva (Moscow), Nouf Mohammed Al-Jabri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Alberto F. Marsala (Venice, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition that includes a fluorescent metal-organic framework (MOF) and a drilling fluid is provided. The MOF includes a porous, crystalline structure and a fluorescent source. A method includes introducing a MOF into a drilling fluid and circulating the drilling fluid through a well dur...