US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 16 for "Method for simulating the effect of plugs on cement placement" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,961, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Method for simulating the effect of plugs on cement placement" was invented by Kvvn Krishna Babu Yerubandi (Houston), Anoop Sheshrao Jogdand (Pune, India) and Walmy Cuello Jimenez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore servicing method comprising transporting a pump unit comprising a unit controller and pumping equipment to a wellsite. Executing a design process on the unit controller to determine a concentration of a wellbore treatment fluid at a wiper plug within an oilfield tubular. The design process utilizes a CFD model to generate a...