US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 27 for "Multiple-conduit production string completion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,986, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multiple-conduit production string completion" was invented by Jose Daniel Valbuena Fuenmayor (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fatimah AlNasser (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production string includes one or more segments each including a solid core defining a plurality of non-intersecting production conduits. Flow through the conduits can be selected such that, as a first instance, substantially all of the fluid flowing from the subterranean zone to the surface location is permitted to flow through one or more of the pluralit...