US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 6 for "Method for real-time interpretation of pressure transient test" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,964, issued on May 6, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method for real-time interpretation of pressure transient test" was invented by Nikita Chugunov (Arlington, Mass.), Sukru Sarac (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Kirsty Morton (Cambridge, Mass.), Fikri Kuchuk (Cambridge, Mass.), Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan (Boxborough, Mass.) and Stephane Vannuffelen (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for interpreting pressure transient tests and predicting future production for a well are provided. In one embodiment, a method for predicting future production includes beginning a pressure transien...