US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 19 for "Hybrid physics-AI method for accurate and fast mud-weight window calculations" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,077, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hybrid physics-AI method for accurate and fast mud-weight window calculations" was invented by Dung T. Phan (Brookshire, Texas), Chao Liu (Brookshire, Texas) and Younane N. Abousleiman (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a mud-weight window is disclosed. The method includes determining, for each of a plurality of borehole-formation training models, a fracture mud weight using a first physics-based method and a collapse mud weight using a second physics-based method, and training, using the plurality ...