US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 29 for "Surface tracking systems and methods for downhole wellbore position and trajectory determination" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,985, issued on July 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Surface tracking systems and methods for downhole wellbore position and trajectory determination" was invented by Christopher Michael Jones (Houston), Jeffrey James Crawford (Houston) and Boguslaw Wiecek (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of determining a wellbore position in a subterranean formation by using gravity sensors to detect a gravity anomaly related to a presence of the wellbore, contents within the wellbore, and or fluid flowing through an interface of the wellbore. A model of the...