US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 2 for "Sacrificial tool for plugging and abandoning a wellbore and methods thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,740, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Sacrificial tool for plugging and abandoning a wellbore and methods thereof" was invented by Ibrahim A. Obaidi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Nawaf S. Shammari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman K. Assiri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes conveying a sacrificial tool into a wellbore on a conveyance, the wellbore penetrating one or more subterranean formations and the sacrificial tool including an overshot fishing tool, a tubing operatively coupled to and extending from the overshot fishing tool, and a liner...