US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 3 for "System and apparatus for blow out preventer components and string protection" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,522, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and apparatus for blow out preventer components and string protection" was invented by Bakr Abdulrahim Al-Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system includes a rig system operable from an oil and gas platform, the rig system including at least one of the group consisting of a top drive, a rotary table, a draw works system, and a circulating system. The well system further includes a blowout preventer (BOP) positioned atop and fluidly coupled to a wellhead installation, the BOP including a longitudinal flow ...