US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 16 for "Prediction based pump-off detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,745, issued on June 16, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Prediction based pump-off detection" was invented by Siyang Song (Humble, Texas), Atchyuta Ramayya Venna (Houston), Jian Wu (Houston), Robert P. Darbe (Tomball, Texas) and Sudhir Kumar Gupta (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pump-off detection, and actions to avert a pump-off event from occurring, are described that may be implemented in a wireline control system while performing a pump-down operation to position a downhole tool within a wellbore. As part of the pump-down operation, the downhole tool is attached to a wireline coupling t...