US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Aug. 12 for "Plant-based drilling fluid composition" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,951, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Plant-based drilling fluid composition" was invented by Mobeen Murtaza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Shahzad Kamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Dhafer A. Al-Shehri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling fluid includes an aqueous base fluid; 1 to 30 wt. % of an okra composition; 10 wt. % of clay particles; and 0.005 to 0.5 wt. % of a base, each wt. % based on a total weight of the drilling fluid composition. The okra composition is uniformly disposed on s...