US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Stimulating wells created by underbalanced coiled tubing drilling" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,554, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Stimulating wells created by underbalanced coiled tubing drilling" was invented by Kaiming Xia (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Todd Allen Green (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tariq Mahmood (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Saidi Ali Hassani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottom hole assembly (BHA) includes components to perform a fracturing process for small hole wells created by underbalanced coiled tubing drilling. The BHA can be used to drill a wellbore and to stimulate an underbalanced coiled tubing drilled well. The BHA, coupled to a co...