US Patent Issued to OPENFIELD on Sept. 15 for "Measuring water level in highly deviated or horizontal hydrocarbon well sections" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,978, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OPENFIELD (Versailles, France).

"Measuring water level in highly deviated or horizontal hydrocarbon well sections" was invented by Eric Donzier (Bercheres sur Vesgre, France), Linda Abbassi (Katy, Texas) and Emmanuel Tavernier (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production logging tool comprises an elongated cylindrical body of longitudinal axis, the body carrying an articulated dual arms deploying arrangement comprising two deploying arms, the deploying arms being operable from a retracted configuration into a vertically extended configuration. At least one arm carries a segmented water ...