US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Updating subsurface structural maps with well-measured orientation data while preserving local geological structures" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,582, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Updating subsurface structural maps with well-measured orientation data while preserving local geological structures" was invented by Yue Ma (Beijing), Xu Ji (Beijing) and Nasher Muqbel Albinhassan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods may include obtaining a seismic dataset regarding a subsurface region of interest and obtaining a well log for each of multiple wellbores penetrating the subsurface region of interest. The methods may also include determining a geological surface from the seismic dataset, wherein the geological s...