US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 28 for "Methods and systems for a subsurface safety valve opening sleeve tool" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,876, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for a subsurface safety valve opening sleeve tool" was invented by Hussain Ali Alssamen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a well intervention operation may be conducted on a wellbore having a subsurface safety valve in a tubular string therein with a wireline extending into the wellbore from a wellhead. The method may include deploying an opening sleeve tool into the wellbore; landing a top portion of the opening sleeve tool on the subsurface safety valve; forcing a gate valve of the subsurf...