US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 30 for "Systems and methods for detecting abnormal flowback" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,052, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting abnormal flowback" was invented by Chao Mu (Beijing), Florian Le Blay (Clamart, France) and Tao Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing flowback of a downhole system includes generating active flowback data by monitoring an active flowback from a wellbore. Historic flowback data for historic flowback from the wellbore is used to determine a flowback cluster. The flowback cluster is selected based on comparing the active flowback data to the historic flowback data and determining one or...