US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Hollow electrical submersible pump for unlimited wellbore intervention" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,833, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hollow electrical submersible pump for unlimited wellbore intervention" was invented by Bandar S. Malki (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Juan Manuel Polo Teran (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Basil Ali Abdullah Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) system may be installed in a wellbore for imparting an uphole thrust to wellbore fluids. Each component of the ESP system may have a hollow interior such that a longitudinal passageway is defined therethrough. The longitudinal passageway permits the ...