US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, NEWPARK DRILLING FLUIDS on Nov. 4 for "Eutectic metal alloy-containing cement and methods of use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,871, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and NEWPARK DRILLING FLUIDS LLC (Katy, Texas).

"Eutectic metal alloy-containing cement and methods of use thereof" was invented by Arthur Hale (Angleton, Texas), Peter Boul (Houston) and Ahmed Said Abdelaziz Amer (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remediating fractures in a cement structure including heating the cement structure to a temperature at or above the melting temperature of the eutectic metal alloy particles to allow the particles to flow in liquid state into the fractures in the cement structure until the heat sour...