US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 22 for "Scaling and plugging detection in artificial lift application" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,565, issued on April 22, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Scaling and plugging detection in artificial lift application" was invented by Yuzhu Hu (Tulsa, Okla.), Frank Corredor (Houston), Clara Susana Tandazo Castro (Houston) and Hans Sjerps (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include a method for controlling a computer system configured to detect scaling and/or plugging of an electric submersible pump (ESP) deployed in a wellbore. The method may include determining, based on a measurement of pressure in the wellbore, a required total dynamic head (RTDH) for the ESP while the ESP ...