US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on May 12 for "Method of simulating fluid flows in an underground formation comprising a fracture network" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,615, issued on May 12, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France).

"Method of simulating fluid flows in an underground formation comprising a fracture network" was invented by Didier Yu Ding (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method of simulating fluid flows in an underground formation comprising a fracture network. A porosity model is constructed, comprising a first medium representative of an unfractured matrix, a second medium representative of fractures oriented in a first direction and a third medium representative of fractures oriented in a second ...