US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "One trip cement plugging and milling/drilling sidetrack assembly, method, and wellbore system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,040, issued on Feb. 24.

"One trip cement plugging and milling/drilling sidetrack assembly, method, and wellbore system" was invented by Tuan Nguyen (Pearland, Texas) and James Scott Trahan (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one trip cement plugging and milling/drilling sidetrack assembly, including a whipstock having a cement flow bore therethrough, a milling/drilling system having a cement flow bore therethrough attached to the whipstock, and a cement flow adapter conduit connecting the flow bore in the milling/drilling system with the flow bore in the whipstock. A method for cement plugging and milling/drilling a sid...