US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 3 for "Cementing a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,231, issued on June 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cementing a wellbore" was invented by Muataz S. Al-Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed S. Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore assembly that includes a wellbore string and a packer assembly. The wellbore string is disposed within a wellbore. The packer assembly is releasably coupled to the wellbore string. The wellbore string extends downhole of the packer assembly. The packer assembly has a housing, a flapper valve, and a packer. The housing is fluidly coupled to the wellbore string. The flapper valve mo...