US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Formation analysis incorporating identification of immovable and viscous hydrocarbons" (Norwegian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,017, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Formation analysis incorporating identification of immovable and viscous hydrocarbons" was invented by Harish B. Datir (Tananger, Norway), Jean-Marc Donadille (Clamart, France), Oliver C. Mullins (Houston), Vladislav Achourov (Tananger, Norway) and Lalitha Venkataramanan (Lexington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for conducting formation analysis. Data from borehole logging tools is used to conduct a petrophysical analysis of the formation in order to determine (quantify) total porosity and formation matr...