US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Methods and systems for cemented open hole intelligent completions in multilateral wells requiring full isolation of gas cap, fractures and / or water bearing boundaries" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,538, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for cemented open hole intelligent completions in multilateral wells requiring full isolation of gas cap, fractures and / or water bearing boundaries" was invented by Juan Manuel Polo Teran (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Rashed Ibrahim Al-Dossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a cemented open hole intelligent completion in a well containing an open hole having a perimeter in which plurality of laterals are embedded. The method comprises deploying a first string section in a por...