US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 5 for "Real-time characterization of fluid front in subsurface formation and inflow management" (British, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,996, issued on May 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Real-time characterization of fluid front in subsurface formation and inflow management" was invented by Ryan W. McChesney (Carrollton, Texas), Karl Ku (Houston), Rex Dael Navarro (Singapore) and Daniel Thomas-Possee (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for performing a seismic survey and characterization of a subsurface formation. Seismic sources coupled to a wellbore of a well system may emit source seismic signals. Seismic sensors couple...