US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, Wellbore Integrity Solutions on Feb. 3 for "Methods for sealing leaks in oil and gas wells" (Saudi Arabia, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,527, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Wellbore Integrity Solutions (Damman, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for sealing leaks in oil and gas wells" was invented by Zahrah Marhoon (Saihat, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Alshaarawi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Abdallah A. Kubaisi (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia), Jafar S. Alzaid (Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), David Shearer (West Midlands, Great Britain) and Shantanu Swadi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sealing leaks in oil and gas wells includes: removing a portion of an inner casing string within a wellbore to access an annulus associated with an ar...