US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 16 for "Smart pressure driven automated fluid injection management system and method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,731, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Smart pressure driven automated fluid injection management system and method" was invented by Jibran Ayub (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shahid Manzoor (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating optimum fluid volume among a set of injectors of a hydrocarbon reservoir includes, for each of multiple depletion stages of the reservoir, determining reservoir pressure at a first region, corresponding to a first injector, in relation to average field reservoir pressure, determining reservoir pressure at a second region...