US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 21 for "Multilateral junction including an expandable sealing element" (Canadian, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,090, issued on July 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Multilateral junction including an expandable sealing element" was invented by Neil Hepburn (Stavanger, Norway), Mark Christopher Glaser (Spring, Texas), Justin Roberts (Calgary, Canada), David Joe Steele (Carrollton, Texas) and Eulalio De Jesus Rosas Fermin (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multilateral junction, a well system, and a method. The multilateral junction, in one aspect, includes a lateral branch template having a lateral window for positioning proximate a junction between a lateral wellbore and a main wellbore,...