US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 11 for "Method of hydrocarbon reservoir simulation using streamline conformal grids" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,044, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of hydrocarbon reservoir simulation using streamline conformal grids" was invented by Ali Haydar Dogru (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Michel Cancelliere (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of simulating fluid flow in a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a coarse grid model of the hydrocarbon reservoir and a trajectory of a wellbore that penetrates the hydrocarbon reservoir, and determining an initial grid geometry surrounding the trajectory. The method further includes co...