US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Detecting wellbore leaks" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,446, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Detecting wellbore leaks" was invented by Ahmed Ghaffar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Omar M. Al Hamid (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting leaks in a wellbore annulus includes deploying one or more sensors into an annulus defined between a wellbore string and a wall of a wellbore. The method also includes receiving, from the one or more sensors, sensor feedback including at least one of pressure information or temperature information of the annulus. The method also includes determining, as a function of the sen...