US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 4 for "Rock facies identification method based on seismic attribute classification using a machine learning network" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,197, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Rock facies identification method based on seismic attribute classification using a machine learning network" was invented by Si-Hai Zhang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Xuekai Sun (Beijing), Ammar Y. Balilah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Yijun Hu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a rock facies map are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) seismic image and a plurality of well logs, and identifying a horizon and determining a set of bandlimited 3D seismic images. The met...