US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Production method with a plunger lift system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,427, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Production method with a plunger lift system" was invented by Bagus Wahyu Setiadi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Gustavo Ariel Alvarez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes deploying a plunger from a wellhead to a downhole location of a production string fluidly coupled to the wellhead and disposed within a wellbore. The plunger includes a collar detector attached to a body of the plunger and the production string includes a plurality of collar. The method includes detecting, by the collar detector, the plurality of ...