ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,145, issued on July 1, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Method to control hydraulic fracturing spread with electric pumps" was invented by Zhijie Sun (Houston), Yang Yu (Singapore), Tirumani Swaminathan (Houston), Ian Mitchell (Houston) and Sergei Parsegov (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a pumping stage of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite with a set of diesel pumps and at least one electric pump to smooth the flowrate transition to an operational setpoint with a higher flowrate. An optimization process communicatively connected to the plurality of pumping units can iterate an...