US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 21 for "Wireline logging in horizontal wells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,105, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wireline logging in horizontal wells" was invented by Ahmed Al-Ghamdi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Hisham Al-Daroura (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore logging system includes a wireline extending into a wellbore, a sonde including at least one logging instrument, a canopy coupled to the sonde and an actuator operable to move the canopy from a retracted configuration to a radially extended configuration. The canopy includes a central shaft, a plurality of ribs pivotally coupled to the central shaft, and a plur...