US Patent Issued to National Oilwell Varco on Sept. 1 for "Drilling fluid conditioning systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,478, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to National Oilwell Varco LP (Houston).

"Drilling fluid conditioning systems and methods" was invented by Ian M. Holman (Pearland, Texas), Eric Landon Scott (Conroe, Texas), Mark J. Lapeyrouse (Missouri City, Texas) and Bradford R. Wood (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling fluid conditioning system for a well system includes a return conduit configured to receive drilling fluid recirculated from a wellbore of the well system, a drilling fluid pre-chilling system in fluid communication with and downstream from the return conduit, wherein the drilling fluid pre-chilling system in...