US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 12 for "Monitoring wellbore fluids using metal ions from tracers" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,634, issued on May 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Monitoring wellbore fluids using metal ions from tracers" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, Texas), Chad W. Glaesman (Singapore) and Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore tracer system can include a first tracer including a first type of metal ions, a second tracer including a second type of metal ions, and a detector positioned proximate to a surface of the wellbore. The first tracer can be positioned at a different section of the wellbore than the second tracer. The detector can analyze a s...