US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 31 for "Devices, systems, and methods for estimating flow rates in a plunger lift system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,532, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods for estimating flow rates in a plunger lift system" was invented by Kaustubh Shrivastava (Houston), Agustin Gambaretto (Houston) and Jason Baihly (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plunger lift management system may measure a casing pressure data series of an annular space between a casing and a tubing. A plunger lift management system may measure a tubing pressure data series of the tubing. A plunger lift management system may generate a pressure differential data series based on the casing pressure data...