US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 3 for "In-situ imaging and characterization of hydraulic fracture development" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,296, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"In-situ imaging and characterization of hydraulic fracture development" was invented by Hassan Alqahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Moath I. Gazlan (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Naif J. Alqahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To perform in-situ imaging and characterization of hydraulic fracture development, a triaxial test assembly is configured to evaluate a core sample obtained from a hydrocarbon formation. The triaxial test assembly is positioned within a Computer Tomography (CT) imag...