US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems to stimulate rock surrounding a wellbore using ultrasound at a preferred frequency" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,830, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems to stimulate rock surrounding a wellbore using ultrasound at a preferred frequency" was invented by Chao Liu (Brookshire, Texas) and Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed. The method may include obtaining, using a rock characterization system, a plurality of characteristics for a rock penetrated by a wellbore, and determining, using a model of poroelasticity and the plurality of characteristics, a preferred ultrasonic frequency at which to insonify the...