US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios to identify source rocks" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,994, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios to identify source rocks" was invented by Feng Hu Lu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods for identifying desirable (e.g., the best) depth intervals in a formation using carbon and/or oxygen isotope ratio information. The desirable depth intervals in the formation correspond to regions in the formation with source rocks and relatively high (e.g., the highest) total organic carbon (TOC)."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/464,842.

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