ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,951, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Integrated line system for a mineral extraction system" was invented by Glenn Thore Saebo (Kristiansand, Norway), Vikas Rakhunde (Cypress, Texas), Taylor Mozisek (Fulshear, Texas) and Jon Tyler (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a drilling fluid flow path configured to be selectively utilized with a well control drilling technique during a first drilling operation and a managed pressure drilling (MPD) technique during a second drilling operation. The system includes a first manifold assembly coupled to the drilling flu...