US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 12 for "Determining well productivity for hydraulically fractured wells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,289, issued on May 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining well productivity for hydraulically fractured wells" was invented by Abdallah A. AlShehri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Klemens Katterbauer (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining well productivity include acquiring measurement data from a plurality of in-situ sensors located within a hydraulically fractured subterranean formation; classifying the noise degree for sensors of the plurality based on the acquired measurement data; selecting sensors from the plurality by minimizing noise degree...