US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 11 for "Methods and compositions for volcanic ash lost circulation materials" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,031, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and compositions for volcanic ash lost circulation materials" was invented by Khawlah Alanqari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Al-Yami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials may be used for mitigation of lost circulation in a subterranean formation. Example methods of lost circulation mitigation may include: introducing a lost circulation material to a zone of interest in a subterranean formation via a wellbore, the zone of interest including depleted zones, zones of low pressure, lost circulation zones, f...