US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 18 for "Methods for conducting a pressure test, and systems relating thereto" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,982, issued on March 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Methods for conducting a pressure test, and systems relating thereto" was invented by Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of conducting a pressure test on a piping and manifold system can include isolating a wellhead from fluid flow into a well to form a closed test system, operating at least one and less than all of the plurality of pumping units to pump fluid into and pressurize the closed test system to a first predetermined pressure, upon reaching the first predetermined pressure, halting pumping of flu...