US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 24 for "System and method to develop naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs using a fracture density index" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,741, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method to develop naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs using a fracture density index" was invented by Karla Patricia Olvera Carranza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Otto Meza Camargo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrocarbon reservoir development that includes determining, based on fracture data, a two-dimensional (2D) fracture model including fracture lines representing locations of fractures in the reservoir, determining, based on the lines, a fracture density index (FDI) map including FDI values for cells r...