ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,216, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Method to smooth pump rate while fracturing" was invented by Zhijie Sun (Houston), Behrouz Ebrahimi (Houston) and Erik Lee (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling changes in pump flow rates. The method involves identifying a first plurality of pumps scheduled to go offline and calculating a corresponding total flow decrease rate. Additionally, a second plurality of pumps intended to go online is identified, and a total flow increase rate is calculated based on these pumps. A determination is then made as to whether the differ...