US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 26 for "Method of drilling wellbore into subterranean geological formation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,606, issued on May 26, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of drilling wellbore into subterranean geological formation" was invented by Shaimaa Salaheldin Mahmoud Ahmed Elkatatny (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salem Abdullah Musallam Basfar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Salaheldin Mahmoud Ahmed Elkatatny (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of drilling a wellbore into a subterranean geological formation includes drilling the subterranean geological formation to form the wellbore, then circulating an invert emulsion drilling fluid into the wellbore during the...