US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 25 for "On surface gamma ray sensor for calibrating cuttings depth in underbalanced coiled tubing drilling rigs" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,353, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"On surface gamma ray sensor for calibrating cuttings depth in underbalanced coiled tubing drilling rigs" was invented by Faisal Alshuhail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman Alshuhail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for on surface calibration of cuttings depth in underbalanced coiled tubing drilling including a drill string for drilling a well and collecting drill cuttings at a first point of a depth interval and at a second point of the depth interval, a gamma ray device at the surface for measuring...