US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 23 for "Predicting formation frackability using surface logging data" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,556, issued on June 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Predicting formation frackability using surface logging data" was invented by Muhammad S. Al Readean (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining frackability probabilities. Surface logging data of a well being drilled for fracking is accessed. Quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) are performed on the surface logging data. Drift analysis is performed on the surface logging data. The surface logging data is prepared for predictive model processing. A predic...