ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,973, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Modeling diffusion and expulsion of hydrocarbons in kerogen" was invented by Adrian Kleine (Aachen, Germany), Christian Vogt (Aachen, Germany) and Thomas Hantschel (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising receiving input data representing a subterranean formation, defining a grid representing the input data, with the grid including cells. The method also includes identifying at least one of the cells in which kerogen is present based on the input data, simulating hydrocarbon movement within the kerogen using the g...