US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 8 for "Progressive cavity pump system having reverse mode" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,682, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Progressive cavity pump system having reverse mode" was invented by Benigno Segundo Montilla Jimenez (Sugar Land, Texas) and Kelly Woolsey (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A progressive cavity pump (PCP) system includes a PCP with a rotor rotatably disposed in a stator, a permanent magnet motor, sucker rod(s), and a control system. The rotor is coupled to one of the sucker rods via a high-torque connection that allows for counter clockwise rotation without loosening the connection between the rotor and sucker rod. The control sy...