US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 5 for "Predicting formation pore pressure in real time based on mud gas data" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,324, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Predicting formation pore pressure in real time based on mud gas data" was invented by Fatai A. Anifowose (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Mokhles M. Mezghani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating a pore pressure value associated with a depth of a well subject to drilling operations may include a data repository for storing integrated mud gas and pore pressure data associated with one or more existing wells. The data repository may also store a machine learning (ML) engine. The system may also include one or mo...