US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 21 for "Inter-well petrophysical assessment by nano-particle injection in the formation" (Saudi Arabia, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,120, issued on April 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Inter-well petrophysical assessment by nano-particle injection in the formation" was invented by Wael Abdallah (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Nestor Herman Cuevas (Tananger, Norway) and Andrew J. Speck (Milton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for locating hydrocarbons near a wellbore, determining petrochemical properties of a reservoir, and assessing hydrocarbon saturation between reservoirs. The nanoparticles can be positively charged and have properties that make them explode upon contacting crude oil. Sen...