US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 23 for "Whipstock to plug and abandon wellbore below setting depth" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,799, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Whipstock to plug and abandon wellbore below setting depth" was invented by Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Mousa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hassan K. Al-Aswad (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Omar M. Al Hamid (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore assembly to plug and abandon a wellbore below a setting depth includes a whipstock assembly configured to drill a lateral wellbore from a primary wellbore formed in a subterranean zone. The wellbore assembly includes a tool assembly connected to the whipstock assembly. The tool assembly is configur...