US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for delivering and setting a eutectic alloy plug to cure loss-of-circulation in drilling applications" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,118, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and apparatus for delivering and setting a eutectic alloy plug to cure loss-of-circulation in drilling applications" was invented by Msalli Alotaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Alshaarawi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Saeed Abdullah Al-Dossary (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole assembly is disclosed that includes a basket having a base, a connection end opposite the base, and a side extending between the base and the connection end. A heater extends centrally through the basket from the base, where the heater h...