US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 24 for "Adaptation of the advanced peng robinson equation of state based on a molecular structure basis for modeling the asphaltene precipitation of petroleum fluids" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,490, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Adaptation of the advanced peng robinson equation of state based on a molecular structure basis for modeling the asphaltene precipitation of petroleum fluids" was invented by Sandra Rodriguez Leon (Calgary, Canada), Glen Andrew Hay (Calgary, Canada) and Kurt Andreas George Schmidt (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid modeling methods and systems are provided for predicting phase behavior of petroleum fluids using a computational model that employs pseudo-components of varying carbon numbers that represent asphaltenes, asphalte...