ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,054, issued on June 10, was assigned to Advanced Upstream Ltd. (Calgary, Canada).
"Pneumatic transport system and method for wellbore operations" was invented by Tom Watkins (Calgary, Canada) and Jeyhun Najafov (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transporting an untethered wellbore completion apparatus to an outlet of a transport system that is operably coupled to and in fluid communication with a wellhead, from a location remote from the wellhead is disclosed. In some embodiments, the transporting includes propelling the object through a conductor of the transport system by moving a gaseous fluid through the...