US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 8 for "Systems and methods for producing a multiphase formation fluid utilizing electric submersible pumps" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,142, issued on July 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for producing a multiphase formation fluid utilizing electric submersible pumps" was invented by Ali Al Fardan (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing a multiphase formation fluid may comprise a wellbore; a packer positioned within the wellbore; first and second electric submersible pumps (ESP) coupled to the packer each comprising an ESP inlet end and an ESP outlet and respectively comprising first and second openings into an interior of the first ESP outlet end and the second ESP outlet end re...