US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on Feb. 10 for "Methods of increasing efficiency of plunger lift operations" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,304, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Methods of increasing efficiency of plunger lift operations" was invented by David J. Schmidt (Morristown, N.J.), Krishnan Kumaran (Raritan, N.J.), Donald Allen Burnett (Spring, Texas), Patrick E. Goschy (Katy, Texas) and Brian C. Seabrook (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of increasing efficiency of plunger lift operations and hydrocarbon wells that perform the methods are disclosed herein. The methods include monitoring an acoustic output from the hydrocarbon well. The methods also include calculating a plunger speed of...