US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 11 for "Multimodal partical diverter for complex completions" (Emirati, Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,054, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Multimodal partical diverter for complex completions" was invented by Abraham Ryan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Vaishak Basavraj Arali (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Gustavo Armando Araque Martinez (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Philippe Enkababian (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for stimulating heterogeneous subterranean formations using a tailored particulate diverter (PD). In some embodiments, a wellbore completion string includes an inflow control device (ICD) positioned in a hi...