US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 8 for "System and method for flow-line circulation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,611, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for flow-line circulation" was invented by Abdullah Wosaibei (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia) and Hasan M. Jassem (Hofuf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing flow of well fluids in a well are provided. The well comprises a wellhead and a wellbore having a tubing and an annulus. The systems include a flow-back path that the tubing fluidly connected to the annulus, a flow line extending from the wellhead to an injection source, and a recirculation line extending from the flow line to the wellhead. Th...