US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 14 for "Inversion method to estimate fracture propagation velocity and fracture volume with cross-well distributed fiber-optic strain data before fracture hit" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,255, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Inversion method to estimate fracture propagation velocity and fracture volume with cross-well distributed fiber-optic strain data before fracture hit" was invented by Yongzan Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Lin Liang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Smaine Zeroug (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to obtain fracture parameters of a hydraulic fracturing operation using strain data obtained before a fracture hit. A system may include a strain sensor and processing circuitry. The strain sensor may be disposed downh...