US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 19 for "System and methods for determining the effect of fracture interference on shale well performance" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,099, issued on May 19, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and methods for determining the effect of fracture interference on shale well performance" was invented by Ahmed Farid Ibrahim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hydraulic fracturing in a shale layer of a geological formation is described. The system includes a borehole which extends between surface of geological formation and shale layer, and a horizontal fracturing pipe which extends perpendicularly from borehole into the shale layer. The horizontal fracturing pipe includes a number o...