US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 24 for "Low emission multi-zone hydrocarbon reservoir testing" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,734, issued on June 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Low emission multi-zone hydrocarbon reservoir testing" was invented by Paul D. Ringgenberg (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to tool string embodiments, system embodiments, and method embodiments for testing and/or sampling a formation in an open hole hydrocarbon well, for example in order to determine whether the well merits production. Disclosed embodiments can be concerned with minimizing hydrocarbon emissions during testing, for example to provide a greener testing approach. Thus, improvements to reservoir ...