US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 2 for "Quantifying zonal flow in multi-lateral wells via taggants of fluids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,375, issued on June 2, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Quantifying zonal flow in multi-lateral wells via taggants of fluids" was invented by Hooisweng Ow (Cambridge, Mass.), Sehoon Chang (Cambridge, Mass.), Gawain Thomas (Cambridge, Mass.) and Wei Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for quantifying zonal flow in a multi-lateral well, including providing a first taggant through a first dosing tubing to a first lateral in a wellbore of the multi-lateral well, providing a second taggant through a second dosing tubing to a second lateral in the wellbore, flowing a first...