US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology, Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for predicting formation thermal properties" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,472, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar land, Texas) and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for predicting formation thermal properties" was invented by Simone Di Santo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wael Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Shouxiang Mark Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Jasim A Al Solial (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for predicting thermal properties of a subsurface rock formation. A training dataset is derived from petrophysical properties of a plurality of formation rock samples and thermal pr...