US Patent Issued to Owen Oil Tools on June 10 for "Apparatus and related methods for the cement breakup during abandonment operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,070, issued on June 10, was assigned to Owen Oil Tools LP (Houston).

"Apparatus and related methods for the cement breakup during abandonment operations" was invented by Craig Smith (Houston), Stanley McCombie (Houston) and Shaun Geerts (Joshua, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of remediation includes positioning a well tool in a bore of the first wellbore tubular, the well tool having at least one shaped charge and at least one propellant body. The method further includes detonating the shaped charge to generate a jet that forms an opening in a first wellbore tubular and a tunnel at least partially in a cement body, but...