US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 19 for "Well testing method using tubing hanger deployed heat tracer flow metering system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,238, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Well testing method using tubing hanger deployed heat tracer flow metering system" was invented by Laurie S. Duthie (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia), Mubarak Dhufairi (Manifa, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz A. Al-Anizi (Manifa, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain A. Saiood (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes shutting in a well and connecting a pressure control system and a tool body to an adapted tubing hanger plug. The pressure control system, tool body, and adapted tubing hanger plug are installed into a borehole, which is t...