US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for conformance control of a wellbore" (Chinese, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,913, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for conformance control of a wellbore" was invented by Xingang Bu (Beijing), Abdulkareem AlSofi (Beijing), Tianping Huang (Beijing) and Mohammed B. AlOtaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformance control method includes identifying a target location of a wellbore formed from a terranean surface to two subterranean formations that include a high permeability formation having a first permeability and a low permeability formation having a second permeability that is equal or less than one-third of th...