US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 30 for "Integrative workflow of constructing mechanical earth model (MEM) for wellbore drilling" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,631, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Integrative workflow of constructing mechanical earth model (MEM) for wellbore drilling" was invented by Yanhui Han (Houston), Khaqan Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rima Taqi AlFaraj (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Dung T. Phan (Brookshire, Texas), Chao Liu (Brookshire, Texas), Khalid M. Alruwaili (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a mechanical earth model (MEM) includes integrating a density logging data set to compute vertical stress and applying correlation...