US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 16 for "Big bore low pressure surface wellhead housing systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,852, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Big bore low pressure surface wellhead housing systems" was invented by Oladele Owoeye (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Peter Egbe (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system includes a wellbore, a conductor extended within the wellbore, and a wellhead installation arranged at an opening to the wellbore. The wellhead installation includes a low-pressure surface wellhead housing (LPWH) having opposing upper and lower ends, an extension joint secured to the lower end at an offsite location prior to delivery to the wellbore, an...