US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on May 13 for "Advanced technique for screening enhanced oil recovery and improved oil recovery methodologies for a petroleum reservoir" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,366, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Advanced technique for screening enhanced oil recovery and improved oil recovery methodologies for a petroleum reservoir" was invented by Ganesh C. Thakur (Houston), Sriram Balasubramanian (Houston), Ahmed M. Alzahabi (Houston) and Sushanta Bose (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for oil recovery by calculating, with a computer system, a current oil saturation of a reservoir, comparing, with the computer system, reservoir properties to screening criteria, determining, with the computer system, a minimum miscibility pressure based on corr...