US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 31 for "Method and system for updating a reservoir simulation model based on a well productivity index" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,519, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for updating a reservoir simulation model based on a well productivity index" was invented by Babatope Kayode (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises measuring a pressure at a plurality of times and a measured flow rate in a well. A measured productivity index (PI) is determined based, at least in part, on the measured flow rate and the pressure at the plurality of times. A flow rate at a second time is simulated, and a fluid pressure at the second time and a third time is simulated. A simul...