US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 22 for "Self-encapsulated electrical submersible pump (ESP)" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,551, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Self-encapsulated electrical submersible pump (ESP)" was invented by Anwar Salah S. Alghamdi (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encapsulated apparatus includes an external housing and an internal housing. The external housing includes a plurality of components including a motor head, a motor, and a pump intake. The motor head has a fluid outlet configured to direct reservoir fluid out of the motor head. The motor head includes a power inlet configured to connect a power cable to an electric transmission system. The mot...