US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 11 for "Generating electricity with a wellbore drilling mud flow" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,861, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating electricity with a wellbore drilling mud flow" was invented by Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mousa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system and a method for generating electricity with a wellbore drilling mud flow in a well system. The well system has a drilling rig positioned above a wellbore and a flow line turbine generator coupled to the drilling rig. The drilling rig has a wellhead assembly coupled to the wellbore, a drill string suspended from the drilling rig and extending through the wellhead assembly into the wel...