US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 1 for "Fast front tracking in EOR flooding simulation on coarse grids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,946, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Fast front tracking in EOR flooding simulation on coarse grids" was invented by Barys Andreevich Samson (Piddington, Great Britain), Sophie Nazik Godefroy (Abingdon, Great Britain), Soham Sheth (Oxford, Great Britain) and Christopher Marooney (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a workflow for modelling EOR flooding operations performed on a reservoir by separating front tracking from the reservoir simulation process, so that the front's position and topology evolves in parallel with the coars...