US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 18 for "Methods for quantifying and tracking amine-based shale inhibitors in drilling fluids" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,828, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for quantifying and tracking amine-based shale inhibitors in drilling fluids" was invented by Vikrant Wagle (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Omprakash Pal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah S. Al-Yami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Khawlah A. Alanqari (Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for quantifying and tracking an amine-based shale inhibitor in a drilling fluid through UV-visible spectroscopy. A correlation is determined between varying concentrations of an amine-based shale inhibitor in a water-based ...