SAUDI ARAMCO GETS U.S. PATENT

DHAHRAN, June 1 (SPA) - Saudi Aramco has been granted patent number
7,359,844 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for GeoMorph - a
“road map� technology that helps navigate thousands of feet beneath
the earth’s surface.

GeoMorph inventors Roger Sung of the Exploration Applications
Services Department and former employee Ken Lewis of the Reservoir
Characterization Department wanted to help resolve the significant
challenge of finding and extracting oil and gas by providing those
involved in the exploration process a better view underground.

Accurate prediction and interpretation of reservoir geology play a
key role in guiding, or “geosteering� the drill bit to the optimal
position.

GeoMorph provides real-time data from the drilling rig to an earth
model. The earth model uses this data along with geological,
geophysical, petrophysical and engineering interpretations to create
a three-dimensional picture of the reservoir - something like the
physical model of a building that architects construct: the shape of
the building (3D structure of the reservoir), number of stories (size
of the reservoir), window and door layout (porous space in the rock
to potentially hold hydrocarbon) and color and content of the
building (oil, gas, water or others).