US Patent Issued to Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations on Feb. 17 for "Flexible gas lift optimization" (Emirati Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,319, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Abu Dhabi Co. for Onshore Petroleum Operations Ltd. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Flexible gas lift optimization" was invented by Ahmed Mohamed M. Ismail (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises the steps of selecting a group of wells; defining a production target rate for the group; allocating wells operated with gas lift to a first sub-group; allocating wells operated without gas lift to a second sub-group; setting a production target rate for the first sub-group and conducting gas lift parameter optimization for at least one well of the first s...