US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 15 for "Reviving a well using through-tubing cable-deployed pump" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,184, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Reviving a well using through-tubing cable-deployed pump" was invented by Chidirim Enoch Ejim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hattan M. Banjar (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes disposing a packer and an ESP inside a production tubing bore. The ESP includes a pump, a discharge, a shroud, and a bypass sub coupled to the shroud. The shroud includes a closed end coupled to a base of the pump. The packer, coupled to an outer surface of the shroud, is located downstream of the bypass sub. The method includes cir...