US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Feb. 24 for "Direct downhole electricity generation in a geothermal well" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,360, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Direct downhole electricity generation in a geothermal well" was invented by Xiaoguang Allan Zhong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to generating electricity by pumping fluid into a thermoelectric conduit that extends into a geothermal reservoir. A method includes pumping fluid into at least one thermoelectric conduit that extends into the geothermal reservoir. The method further includes generating electricity with the thermoelectric conduit due to a temperature differential between the f...