US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 13 for "Modeling efficiency of solids removal during wellbore fluids displacements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,121, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Modeling efficiency of solids removal during wellbore fluids displacements" was invented by Vitor Lopes Pereira (The Woodlands, Texas) and Dale E. Jamison (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining the efficiency of solids removal from a wellbore during a wellbore displacement operation may prevent the unnecessary consumption of resources at a well site and enhance the performance of subsequent wellbore operations. The efficiency of solids removal may be based, at least in part, on one or more expected masses of one or more return flui...