Patents by Inventor Tareq Shaalan

Tareq Shaalan 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).

  • Patent number: 11906697
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining grid model data for a geological region of interest and well data for various wells in the geological region of interest. A well among the wells may correspond to a simulated well network in a reservoir simulation. The method may further include determining, based on the grid model data and the well data, a first simulation solution for a first constraint rate equation decoupled from the simulated well network and using a first search method. The method may further include determining, based on the grid model data, the well data, and the first simulation solution, a second simulation solution for a second constraint rate equation coupled to the simulated well network and using a second search method. The method may further include performing, based on the grid model data, and the second simulation solution, the reservoir simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Tareq Shaalan, Zhen Chen
  • Patent number: 11842127
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving, by a computing device, parameters of the fractured well, wherein the fractured well comprises a wellbore and one or more hydraulic fractures extending from the wellbore; generating, by the computing device and based on the parameters of the fractured well, an equivalent complex well that represents the fractured well; and executing, by the computing device and using the equivalent complex well, a simulation that simulates the performance of the fractured well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ghazi Dhafer AlQahtani, Zhen Chen, Abdullah A. Hamidi, Tareq Shaalan
  • Patent number: 11441390
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for performing an advanced control policy for a group of wells. Choke settings are applied to one or more control elements of each well in a group of wells. Rig control settings are applied to the group of wells. The rig control settings define, for each rule in a set of rules: a rule count limiting a number of times a rule is to be executed in a simulation run and a rule frequency identifying a time frequency by which the rule is to be executed during the simulation run. Settings are received for targets and constraints for the group of wells. The simulation run is executed for the group of wells using the choking settings, the rig control settings, and the settings for of the targets and constraints for the group of wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ghazi Dhafer AlQahtani, Shahid Manzoor, Hisham Salem, Tareq Shaalan, Zhen Chen
  • Publication number: 20220283336
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining grid model data for a geological region of interest and well data for various wells in the geological region of interest. A well among the wells may correspond to a simulated well network in a reservoir simulation. The method may further include determining, based on the grid model data and the well data, a first simulation solution for a first constraint rate equation decoupled from the simulated well network and using a first search method. The method may further include determining, based on the grid model data, the well data, and the first simulation solution, a second simulation solution for a second constraint rate equation coupled to the simulated well network and using a second search method. The method may further include performing, based on the grid model data, and the second simulation solution, the reservoir simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Tareq Shaalan, Zhen Chen
  • Publication number: 20220261513
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving, by a computing device, parameters of the fractured well, wherein the fractured well comprises a wellbore and one or more hydraulic fractures extending from the wellbore; generating, by the computing device and based on the parameters of the fractured well, an equivalent complex well that represents the fractured well; and executing, by the computing device and using the equivalent complex well, a simulation that simulates the performance of the fractured well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ghazi Dhafer AlQahtani, Zhen Chen, Abdullah A. Hamidi, Tareq Shaalan
  • Publication number: 20220010635
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for performing an advanced control policy for a group of wells. Choke settings are applied to one or more control elements of each well in a group of wells. Rig control settings are applied to the group of wells. The rig control settings define, for each rule in a set of rules: a rule count limiting a number of times a rule is to be executed in a simulation run and a rule frequency identifying a time frequency by which the rule is to be executed during the simulation run. Settings are received for targets and constraints for the group of wells. The simulation run is executed for the group of wells using the choking settings, the rig control settings, and the settings for of the targets and constraints for the group of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ghazi Dhafer AlQahtani, Shahid Manzoor, Hisham Salem, Tareq Shaalan, Zhen Chen
  • Publication number: 20210198981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations for simulating performance of a reservoir that includes a wellbore. The operations include determining a constraint for an intelligent completion in a model of the wellbore, where the constraint includes a condition and a responsive action. The operations further include performing, in response to determining that the condition is satisfied, the responsive action. Further, the operations include determining, in response to performing the responsive action, transfer equations for the model of the wellbore. Yet further, the operations include building, using the transfer equations, a wellbore computation matrix for the model of the wellbore. In addition, the operations include solving the wellbore computation matrix and determining that a solution to the wellbore computation matrix has converged to an acceptable tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Tareq Shaalan, Zhen Chen