US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 16 for "Measuring and monitoring downhole tubing encased conductor resistance" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,428, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Measuring and monitoring downhole tubing encased conductor resistance" was invented by Ziquan Wang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises monitoring a resistance over time of a tubing encased conductor (TEC) that electrically connects a first downhole gauge to a second downhole gauge positioned in a borehole deeper than the first downhole gauge. The method includes detecting that a first TEC fault has occurred in the TEC, in response to a change in the resistance being greater than a fault occurrence threshold and in response to a...