US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Method for evaluating advanced conformance control, sweep efficiency, deep diversion, and water shutoff treatments" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,765, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for evaluating advanced conformance control, sweep efficiency, deep diversion, and water shutoff treatments" was invented by Marwah Mufid AlSinan (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Jun Gao (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Zuhair A. Yousif (Saihat, Saudi Arabia), Mustafa R. Satrawi (Anak, Saudi Arabia) and Hyung Kwak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for evaluating oil recovery. The method includes performing a pre-coreflood process, a coreflood process, and a post-core...