US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 5 for "Particulate buffer for attenuating corrosion of dissolvable frac plug" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,862, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Particulate buffer for attenuating corrosion of dissolvable frac plug" was invented by Hashem Al-Obaid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Scott Fraser Ashby (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bassam Al-Mulhim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore operation for increasing fluid production from a surrounding formation includes multiple stages of wellbore stimulation. In each stage a different zone of the formation is fractured by injecting a stimulation fluid into the wellbore, which creates fractures in the formation zone. Adjacent formatio...