US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 10 for "Flexible turbine for power generation in straight pipe" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,134, issued on June 10, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Flexible turbine for power generation in straight pipe" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas) and Kanishk Parmar (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole power generation system may include a downhole tubular having a generator recess. The generator recess is radially offset from a central bore of the downhole tubular, and the generator recess is connected to the central bore via an opening. The system may further include a generator disposed at least partially within the generator rec...