US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 5 for "Downhole sand trap" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,316, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole sand trap" was invented by Rae Andrew Younger (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain), Richard Mark Pye (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Christopher Wrighton (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solids trap module for an electrical submersible pump (ESP) of a wellbore is provided. The module includes a solids buffer and a fluid passage, the fluid passage having a first segment configured to redirect a fluid in a first angular direction relative to an axial axis, and a second segment configured to redirect at least a por...