ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,981, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Detecting interference between hydrocarbon wells" was invented by Somiari Bestman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Rasheed M. Almahdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: obtaining production data about the well; generating a simulated average reservoir pressure at the subsurface region that includes the well; computing a difference between an average reservoir pressure obtained from the production data and the simulated average reservoir pres...