US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 15 for "Selectively powering an electrical submersible pump assembly" (Saudi Arabia, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,964, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Selectively powering an electrical submersible pump assembly" was invented by Jinjiang Xiao (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Jamie Matthew Cochran (Inverurie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A completion assembly to be disposed in a wellbore to produce a hydrocarbon. The completion assembly has electrical conductors, a docking station for an electrical submersible pump assembly, and a downhole electrical connector selector. The docking station is coupled to the electrical conductors in the wellbore and has multiple electrical connectors ...