US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology Corporatio on March 17 for "Single trip completion system with open hole gravel pack go/stop pumping" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,857, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporatio (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Single trip completion system with open hole gravel pack go/stop pumping" was invented by Nabil Ben Mohamed Batita (Houston), Balkrishna Gadiyar (Katy, Texas), Joel Gil (Rosharon, Texas), Jeremie Poizat (Houston), Maye Ezekiel Beldongar (Brookshire, Texas), Troy Bradley (Houston) and Olutayo Dada (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of completing a well in a single trip includes drilling a wellbore with drilling mud, running a single trip completion string including an upper completion, a lower completion, and a packer betwe...