US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 29 for "Providing lost circulation material to cure fluid losses in a well" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,955, issued on July 29, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Providing lost circulation material to cure fluid losses in a well" was invented by Ahmed Mohammed Al-Jeffri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Victor Jose Bustamante Rodriguez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a drilling sub-system configured to form a wellbore from a terranean surface toward a subterranean formation by rotating a drill bit on a drill string; a drilling fluid circulation sub-system configured to circulate a drilling fluid downhole through the drill string, to and through the drill bit, into the well...