US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 16 for "Workflow for optimizing engineering procedure to reduce borehole breakdown pressure by combination of oriented notching/perforation and fluid chemical conditioning process in open and cased hole" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,234, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Workflow for optimizing engineering procedure to reduce borehole breakdown pressure by combination of oriented notching/perforation and fluid chemical conditioning process in open and cased hole" was invented by Yanhui Han (Houston), Feng Liang (Houston) and Khalid M. Alruwaili (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for developing a procedure for pretreating a section of a wellbore prior to hydraulic fracturing stimulation of the section of the wellbore includes determining an optimized notch geometry and determining a...