US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 3 for "Quantification of expressive experimental semi-variogram ranges uncertainties" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,748, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Quantification of expressive experimental semi-variogram ranges uncertainties" was invented by Samir Kumar Walia (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sherif Khattab (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Marko Maucec (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for optimizing variogram ranges uncertainties. Variogram modeling is performed using variogram models on wells in parallel (major), normal (minor), and vertical directions for continuous log porosity to select a best-fit variogram model using large uncer...