US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 8 for "Restrictor and bridge valve for restricting water and producing gas" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,131, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Restrictor and bridge valve for restricting water and producing gas" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore) and Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include a flow control device positioned in a tubing string within a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, the flow control device configured to produce a liquid or a gas. The flow control device may comprise a movable restrictor configured to move, in response to the liquid at a first velocity from the subsurface formation, from a clos...