US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 23 for "Systems and methods for anchoring a sub-surface completion unit in a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,913, issued on June 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for anchoring a sub-surface completion unit in a wellbore" was invented by Pranay Asthana (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thru-tubing completion system includes a sub-surface completion unit (SCU) configured to pass through a production tubing disposed in a wellbore in at least an open holed portion of the wellbore and perform completion operations in the target zone. The SCU includes an expandable liner; and one or more SCU anchoring seals configured to be po...