ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,712, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zenrg Services LLC (Houston).

"Methods to drawdown pipe sections with the use or regulation control of flaring and cross-compression technique" was invented by Ronald Williams (Kingwood, Texas), Sam Edwards (Houston), Joe Chandler (Houston) and Cameron Brasier (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to drawdown pipe sections with the use or regulation control of flaring and cross-compression technique. The method allows to evacuate a fluid mixture from a drawdown section. The fluid mixture typically contains a liquid phase and a gas phase. The method includes flowing the fluid mi...