US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Formation breakdown pressure near wellbores" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,435, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Formation breakdown pressure near wellbores" was invented by Tameem Almani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Khaqan Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad H. Altwaijri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, methods and systems are described for calculating formation breakdown pressures. A method involves determining, during hydraulic fracturing operations, a pore pressure for a wellbore; determining a poroelastic stress for the wellbore using a poroelastic stress equation and based on the pore pressure; determining, dur...