US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 27 for "Segmented expanding gun for plug and abandonment applications" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,645, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Segmented expanding gun for plug and abandonment applications" was invented by Matthew Edward Billingham (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein provide for a segmented expanding gun for plug and abandon downhole applications. The expanding gun can include a first ring of multiple shaped charges. First and second charges in the ring can be identically shaped and contiguous. The first ring expands radially to deploy the shaped charges on a tubular wall. Multiple rings can be stacked and offset axially."

The p...