US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 2 for "Producing hydrocarbons from multiple formations" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,743, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Producing hydrocarbons from multiple formations" was invented by Moataz Mohammad Alharbi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes production tubing, a first packer, a second packer, one or more first ports, and one or more first conduits. The production tubing extends downhole through multiple subsurface formations including a first formation and a second formation that are gas-bearing formations and a third formation separating the first formation and the second formation. The first packer is positioned in the third...