US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Jan. 27 for "Lost circulation composite materials and methods and systems related thereto" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,662, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Lost circulation composite materials and methods and systems related thereto" was invented by Ayman Almohisn (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bader G. Alharbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed K. Arfaj (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Aqeel K. Alshakhouri (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, methods and systems including a composite lost circulation material (CLCM) composition. The CLCM composition includes a colloidal nanosilica component having nanosilica particles and a nanosilica carrier fluid; a temperature-controlled a...