US Patent Issued to FMC Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Sand gas quantification and automated control of flowback operations" (Texas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,643, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).

"Sand gas quantification and automated control of flowback operations" was invented by Julian Keihany (Houston), Ryan Malone (Farmington, N.M.), Eric Rasmussen (Gordon, Texas) and Tommy Thammavongsa (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for quantifying sand gas discharge in a sand discharge cycle and controlling a sand evacuation process of an oil and gas well system is disclosed. Sensors including at least pressure transducers and a density meter may be disposed along a discharge line and configured to detect data indicative of the flow of...