US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology, Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems to identify formations with minimum clay related natural gamma rays" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,793, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas) and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems to identify formations with minimum clay related natural gamma rays" was invented by Ping Zhang (Albany, Calif.), Shouxiang Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wael Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Chengbing Liu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods and systems for identifying formations that are clay-free or with minimal amount of clays, which have high hydrocarbon potential, by using both low frequency permittivity measurements...