US Patent Issued to GreenFire Energy on May 5 for "Methods and systems for installing tubulars in wells" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,311, issued on May 5, was assigned to GreenFire Energy Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for installing tubulars in wells" was invented by Greg Szutiak (Calgary, Canada), John R. Muir (St. George, Utah), Alan D. Eastman (Holladay, Utah) and Joseph A. Scherer (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a handling mast, a tubular source stack, a tubing loader, a spider device, and a connection device. The tubing loader is configured to capture a first HVT from the tubular source stack, load the first HVT into the handling mast, capture a second HVT from the tubular source stack, and load the secon...