US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 24 for "Lost circulation mitigation using mineralization of CO 2 in the subsurface" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,053, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Lost circulation mitigation using mineralization of CO 2 in the subsurface" was invented by Pramod Dhanaji Patil (Sugar Land, Texas), Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ali A. Yousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration in a wellbore. A method includes locating a lost circulation zone in the wellbore during drilling. Methods may further include flushing drilling mud from the wellbore to prepare the lost circulation zone for lost circulation mitigatio...