ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,318, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Side-tracking a wellbore" was invented by Bandar S. Malki (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Miguel A. Avila Romero (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mujahid Otman Alhulailah (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A whipstock assembly and a method for side-tracking a wellbore. The whipstock assembly includes a casing sub-assembly. The casing sub-assembly has a first rotating collar, a second rotating collar, and multiple bars. The bars are movable from a first position spaced apart from the first and second rotating collars to a second position exten...