US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 15 for "Completing a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,182, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Completing a wellbore" was invented by Tom Harneshaug (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an assembly for drilling and completing a wellbore in an underbalanced condition. The wellbore is drilled with coiled tubing through a mechanically competent formation into a poorly consolidated producing formation. The coiled tubing is run from a bottom hole location to a first uphole location uphole from the bottom hole location. A permeable proppant is pumped through the coiled tubing into the wellbore at the first uphole loc...