US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on March 31 for "Process for cementing a portion of a wellbore using a red mud cement composition" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,506, issued on March 31, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for cementing a portion of a wellbore using a red mud cement composition" was invented by Ahmed Abdulhamid Ahmed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Salaheldin Mahmoud Ahmed Ahmed Elkatatny (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cementing a portion of a wellbore involving introducing a well cement slurry into the portion of the wellbore and allowing the well cement slurry to cure, thereby forming a cured wellbore cement sheath. The well cement slurry includes a hydraulic cement, red mud...