US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 17 for "Hydrocarbon oil fraction prediction while drilling" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,449, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrocarbon oil fraction prediction while drilling" was invented by Fatai A. Anifowose (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Mokhles M. Mezghani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Vladislav Torlov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes building a mud-gas hydrocarbon oil fraction database comprising historical data, training a machine learning model using the historical data in the mud-gas hydrocarbon oil fraction database, drilling a new wellbore, processing drilling mud returns, from the new wellbore, through a gas sampler co...