US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 27 for "External intervention downhole drilling and workover tool" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,888, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"External intervention downhole drilling and workover tool" was invented by Mohammed Ali Madan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim Abdullah Althowiqeb (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fahad Ghazi Moqati (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole workover tool includes an elongate, cylindrical body having opposing lower and upper ends and defining an interior sized to receive a selected portion of a wellbore tubular via the lower end, and a plurality of insert tools receivable within a corresponding plurality of insert chambers (cav...