US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Jan. 27 for "Water shut-off materials and methods thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,661, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Water shut-off materials and methods thereof" was invented by Luai A. Alhamad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Ali Abdullah M. Al-Taq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah A. Alrustum (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sajjad Aldarweesh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water shut-off materials may comprise: a polyacrylamide; a crosslinker; an aqueous base fluid; and a plurality of magnesium oxide particles. Methods for using water shut-off materials may comprise: pumping a water shut-off material into a wellbore and to a target zone in a subt...