US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS on Aug. 11 for "Method for mitigating barite sag in water-based mud with thermochemical fluid" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,032, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for mitigating barite sag in water-based mud with thermochemical fluid" was invented by Ayman R Al-Nakhli (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Olalekan Alade (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for mitigating particulate settling in a drilling fluid. A set of rheological data for a first drilling fluid is obtained, where the set of rheological data includes a measured viscosity value. A thermal ...