ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,536, issued on June 10, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).
"Determination of formation water salinity using time resolved chlorine capture gamma spectroscopy" was invented by Natasa Mekic (Spring, Texas), Richard Pemper (Sugar Land, Texas) and Gregory Schmid (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining formation salinity using pulsed neutron (PN) tools are described. Embodiments of the described methods involve binning chlorine yields or chlorine count rates arising from capture events into early and late capture regimes, which may be used to attribute the events to...