US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 30 for "Hydrogen show assessment via advanced mud gas data" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,053, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrogen show assessment via advanced mud gas data" was invented by Ruba M. Afifi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Nikolaos A. Michael (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for quantifying and assessing hydrogen shows in geological formations includes receiving raw advanced mud gas data including hydrogen gas and total hydrocarbon concentrations for one or more geological formations in a geographical area, calculating a baseline concentration value of hydrogen gas for each geological formation and remov...