ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,890, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Whipstock integrated to completion string for coiled tubing operations" was invented by Mohammed A. Alshehri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Atallah N. Alharbi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes coiled tubing connected to a bottom hole assembly, a latching tool removably connected to the completion string using a completion shear pin, configured to connect to the bottom hole assembly, having a stationary portion and a rotational portion overlayed on top of the stationary portion, wherein a first position of the la...