US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 4 for "Cleaning devices and operations for downhole separation in a well" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,686, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Cleaning devices and operations for downhole separation in a well" was invented by David J. Steele (Carrollton, Texas) and Matthew Bradley Stokes (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a downhole separation system configured to be positioned downhole a well formed in a subsurface formation, wherein the downhole separation system is configured to receive formation fluid from the subsurface formation and configured to separate formation fluid into a production fluid and a nonproduction fluid. The downhole separation system c...