US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Determination of asphaltene onset condition of reservoir fluids during downhole fluid analysis" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,788, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Determination of asphaltene onset condition of reservoir fluids during downhole fluid analysis" was invented by Shahnawaz Hossain Molla (Cambridge, Mass.) and Elham Mahmoodaghdam (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying a likelihood of problematic reservoir fluid containing asphaltene and/or an asphaltene onset pressure (AOP) using downhole fluid analysis data are provided. A method may include retrieving downhole fluid analysis data corresponding to a reservoir fluid that was obtained by a downhole acquisiti...