Patents by Inventor Ahmed Kenawi

Ahmed Kenawi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optimizing subterranean treatment characteristic by digital geoinformatics
    Patent number: 9063247
    Abstract: Methods for acquiring, cataloguing, and analyzing digital core samples taken of subterranean formations are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining an image or a series of images of at least a portion of a subterranean formation; simulating, by a computing device, a fracturing characteristic of the subterranean formation based on the image or the series of images; and cataloguing the image or the series of images in a formation fingerprinting database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Li, David B. Allison, Andrew J. Eis, Ahmed Kenawi
  • OPTIMIZING SUBTERRANEAN TREATMENT CHARACTERISTIC BY DIGITAL GEOINFORMATICS
    Publication number: 20130236064
    Abstract: Methods for acquiring, cataloguing, and analyzing digital core samples taken of subterranean formations are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining an image or a series of images of at least a portion of a subterranean formation; simulating, by a computing device, a fracturing characteristic of the subterranean formation based on the image or the series of images; and cataloguing the image or the series of images in a formation fingerprinting database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Li, David B. Allison, Andrew J. Eis, Ahmed Kenawi