US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 3 for "Reducing vibration of an electric submersible pump" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,210, issued on June 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Reducing vibration of an electric submersible pump" was invented by Marcelo Ramos Flores (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Alaa Shawly (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric submersible pump assembly that has a motor, a pump, and a slip assembly. The pump is driven by the motor to flow production fluid up the wellbore through a wellbore string. The slip assembly is attached to the electric submersible pump assembly and resides downhole of the motor. The slip assembly has a first slip and a second slip. The first slip is couple...