US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Feb. 17 for "Formation permeability anisotropy measurement by injecting then pumping of injection fluid" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,341, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Formation permeability anisotropy measurement by injecting then pumping of injection fluid" was invented by Bin Dai (Katy, Texas), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Zhonghuan Chen (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media for determining permeability anisotropy of a formation. A formation tester can be set at a location within a wellbore. A plurality of probes can be set into a formation at the location. A tracer solution can be injected into the formation...