US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "Generating synthetic borehole image logs" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,502, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating synthetic borehole image logs" was invented by Weihua Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yunsheng Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim A. Makrami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Maan A. Hawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating synthetic borehole image logs include logging rate of penetration (ROP) data, resistivity data, and gamma ray data while drilling a borehole in a subsurface formation to generate logged data. The generating includes determining an effective dip angle of the subsurface for...