US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 23 for "Methods employing distributed temperature sensing and distributed acoustic sensing for geothermal well planning and development" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,904, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods employing distributed temperature sensing and distributed acoustic sensing for geothermal well planning and development" was invented by Everhard Johan Muijzert (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for geothermal well planning and development are provided. This includes: installing fiber optic cables that extend within a plurality of shallow wells, wherein the fiber optic cables support both DTS measurements and DAS measurements; connecting DTS interrogators to the fiber optic cables and configuring the DTS ...