ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,981, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Systems for deploying downhole gas-lift tracers" was invented by Faical Baghdadi (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system includes a wellbore extending from a surface location, production tubing arranged within the wellbore and thereby defining an annulus between the production tubing and an inner wall of the wellbore, a plurality of gas-lift valves arranged on the production tubing and operable to receive a lift gas from the annulus and discharge the lift gas into an interior of the production tubing, a unique ...