US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 1 for "Optical detection of ION water chemistry in oil and water" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,156, issued on July 1, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Optical detection of ION water chemistry in oil and water" was invented by Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and James Martin Price (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of separating multiphase flows in a flowline of a downhole fluid sampling and analysis tool, measuring target ions in the water phase, and separating between formation water and injection water are described. The system to separate the multiphase flows includes a three-dimensional barrier permeable to water and repelling oil and/or drilling mud filtrate into at ...