US Patent Issued to Oilfield Service Professionals on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for performing downhole operations, including perforating and cementing operations" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,057, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Oilfield Service Professionals LLC (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for performing downhole operations, including perforating and cementing operations" was invented by Blake Arabie (Lafayette, La.) and Scotty Verret (Carencro, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for using perforating tools and downhole wellbore isolation devices in various combinations and configurations in order to perform downhole perforating and cementing operations. Perforating is performed using at least one mechanical perforating device. Cementing operations can include block squeeze jobs (wherein the casing is sel...