US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for electrical submersible pump (ESP) control and replacement" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,536, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and apparatus for electrical submersible pump (ESP) control and replacement" was invented by Hashim A. Alsadah (Safwa, Saudi Arabia) and Mostafa Bori (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining operating data regarding a plurality of Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) systems in a field of interest. The operating data describe respective replacements of each of the ESP systems, respective compatibility type of each of the ESP systems, and ESP status data comprising: a hydrogen sulfide gas partial pr...