US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 1 for "Borehole electrokinetic energy generation and on-line water determination" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,074, issued on April 1, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Borehole electrokinetic energy generation and on-line water determination" was invented by Ryan W. McChesney (Carrollton, Texas), Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore) and Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid flow control device, a well system, and a method are provided. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, may include an inlet port, allowing a downhole fluid of a borehole to flow into the fluid flow control device, and an outlet port, allowing the downhole fluid to flow out of the fluid flow control dev...