US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on July 1 for "Drilling fluids and methods of making and using thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,794, issued on July 1, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Drilling fluids and methods of making and using thereof" was invented by Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Tawfik Abdo Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates drilling fluids and methods of producing and using drilling fluids. The drilling fluid include an aqueous base fluid; at least one of a clay-based component and a mud; and a shale inhibitor comprising silica grafted with glutamate-glycol, wherein the drill...