US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 15 for "Predicted bias correction for drilling fluids" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,516, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Predicted bias correction for drilling fluids" was invented by Mathew Dennis Rowe (Houston) and Jhanvi Manishkumar Kevadiya (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can displace a headspace associated with a drilling fluid sample with a hydrocarbon blend with a first volume a hydrocarbon gas. The system can also extract the hydrocarbon blend from the head space associated with the drilling fluid sample. The system can further determine a concentration over time of the hydrocarbon gas of the hydrocarbon blend and generating a gas decay curve...