ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,349, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Method for estimating dissolution of salt" was invented by Yanhui Han (Houston) and Younane Abousleiman (Norman, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating dissolution progress of a salt in construction of a salt cavern includes: defining, for each of a plurality of parameters, an operable range of respective parameter and an average value of the operable range of respective parameter; performing a plurality of flooding tests, by varying one particular parameter among the plurality of parameters from a lowest value to a highes...