US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on March 24 for "Casing attachment system for attenuating annular pressure buildup" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,373, issued on March 24, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Casing attachment system for attenuating annular pressure buildup" was invented by Thomas A. Petersen (Houston), Sudhin Datta (Houston), Spencer A. White (Houston), Andy J. Veselka (Houston), William C. Morris Jr. (Magnolia, Texas) and Ward E. Narhi (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of attenuating annular pressure buildup within a wellbore. The method includes running first and second strings of casing into a wellbore, wherein the first string of casing surrounds an upper portion of the second string of casing ...