US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 17 for "Dual well, dual pump production" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,862, issued on March 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Dual well, dual pump production" was invented by Donn J. Brown (Tulsa, Okla.) and Trevor A. Kopecky (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for producing hydrocarbons. An example method includes producing a non-hydrocarbon liquid from a first horizontal wellbore, the first horizontal wellbore extending from a vertical wellbore and through a hydrocarbon producing formation. The method further includes pumping the non-hydrocarbon liquid with a first pump into a second horizontal wellbore, the second horizontal wellbore extend...