US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 15 for "Quantification of formation water saturation and salinity using relative permittivity and conductivity measurements" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,278, issued on July 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas) and SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Quantification of formation water saturation and salinity using relative permittivity and conductivity measurements" was invented by Wael Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ping Zhang (Albany, Calif.), Shouxiang Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Chengbing Liu (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems are provided that characterize a geological formation, which involve collecting or obtaining electrical signal data that results from interaction of electrical sign...