US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Sampling through perforation guns with flushing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,786, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Sampling through perforation guns with flushing" was invented by Jeremie Poizat (Houston), Karthik Kundapur (Rosharon, Texas), Arunkumar Arumugam (Rosharon, Texas), Vinod Chakka (Rosharon, Texas), Yuxiang Liu (Rosharon, Texas) and Juan Carlos Luna Diaz (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a casing configured to mount within an open hole of a wellsite and a monitoring system configured to mount outside of the casing and monitor a geological formation. The monitoring system includes a perforating device outside of th...