US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 28 for "Generating input data for simulating reservoirs with variable fluid contact depths" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,447, issued on July 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating input data for simulating reservoirs with variable fluid contact depths" was invented by Eric A. Dow (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael L. Szulczewski (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium are described for generating data used to simulate properties of a target area in a subterranean region. A system obtains data describing a water-hydrocarbon interface of the target area and selects control parameters for processing the data based on a formati...