US Patent Issued to Axter AS on Jan. 20 for "Well intervention tool and method for clearing tubes and lines" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,276, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Axter AS (Bryne, Norway).

"Well intervention tool and method for clearing tubes and lines" was invented by Henning Hansen (Sirevag, Norway), Tarald Gudmestad (Naerbo, Norway), Torfinn Bjelland (Lye, Norway) and Arnulf Bye (Kverneland, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating and retrieving a line, tube or conduit ("line") disposed in a well includes moving an intervention tool into a part of the well wherein the line is accessible to the tool when the tool is conveyed into the well from within a first tubular string. A first gripper arm is rotated in a first direction around ...