US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 17 for "System and method for methane hydrate based production prediction" (Chinese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,856, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and method for methane hydrate based production prediction" was invented by Bei Gao (Shanghai), Yen Han Shim (Selangor, Malaysia), Li Chen (Beijing), Jichao Chen (Beijing), Wei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Huimin Cai (Beijing) and Chang Wei Qu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for determining a dissociation constant of a reservoir that includes methane hydrate and generating a methane hydrate production output that may be used to inform certain decisions related to processing a reservoir...