ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,374, issued on June 2, was assigned to ZENRG Services LLC (Houston).

"Methods of swabbing liquid loaded wells, and killing wells, with the use of compression pumps, regulators and filtration techniques" was invented by Ronald Williams (Kingwood, Texas), Sam Edwards (Sugar Land, Texas), Joe Chandler (Houston) and Cameron Brasier (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to unload a fluid mixture from an underground production tubing, in order to reduce the hydrostatic pressure within the fluid mixture. A method to kill an oil or gas well by equalizing pressure between the production tubing, the casing annulus, and a surfac...