US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, NATIONAL PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "System and method for milling past wellbore restrictions" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,852, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and NATIONAL PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY COMPANY (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for milling past wellbore restrictions" was invented by Bayan Abaza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Othmane Mezabia (Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for milling past wellbore restrictions. The system includes multiple components axially connected to form a bottom hole assembly (BHA). The BHA includes an external coil connector, a motor head assembly (MHA), a metal-to-metal (MTM) motor, a bypass circulation valve (BCV), and...