US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for determining a wellbore-casing volume" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,691, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for determining a wellbore-casing volume" was invented by Hussain AlBahrani (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Omar Alblushi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the volume of a wellbore for hydrocarbon extraction in a subsurface. The method includes at each depth of the wellbore, obtaining image data which characterizes the physical properties of the subsurface, calibrating the image data with mechanical caliper or resistivity measurements, determining a radial distance of the wellbore wall, and ...