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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2023
Applicant:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Inventors:
Graham Richard Hitchcock, Aberdeenshire, GB;
Arthur Hale, Angleton, TX (US);
Assignee:
SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran, SA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 36/04 (2005.12); E21B 10/42 (2005.12); E21B 21/00 (2005.12); E21B 33/138 (2005.12); E21B 36/00 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/003 (2012.12); E21B 33/138 (2012.12); E21B 36/00 (2012.12); E21B 36/04 (2012.12); E21B 10/42 (2012.12);
Abstract
A method repairing lost circulation conditions during drilling operations, including deploying a deployment tool to a lost circulation zone, charging the deployment tool with eutectic metal alloy pellets, activating a heater to melt the pellets through the deployment tool and out of the crucible onto the targeted zone to form a patch, removing the deployment tool, and milling away excess cooled and cured eutectic metal alloy.