ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,109, issued on July 1, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for optimization of wellbore operations of producing wells" was invented by Oluwatosin Ogundare (The Woodlands, Texas), Jeremy C. Nicholson (Houston) and Eric Lynn Jantz (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing an intervention operation in a wellbore using a friction reducer fluid include a coiled tubing insertable into the wellbore, a pump operable to pump the friction reducer fluid through the coiled tubing and into the wellbore, and sensors operable to detect wellbore conditions. A controll...