ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,639, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).
"Method for estimating hydrocarbon saturation of a rock" was invented by Nishank Saxena (Houston), Faruk Omer Alpak (Houston), Amie Marie Hows (Houston), John Justin Freeman (Houston), Matthias Appel (Houston), Ronny Hofmann (Houston) and Bochao Zhao (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for estimating hydrocarbon saturation of a hydrocarbon-bearing rock from a measurement for an electrical property a resistivity log and a rock image. The image is segmented to represent either a pore space or solid material in the rock. An imag...