ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,733, issued on May 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Azimuthal scanning of a wellbore for determination of a cement-bond condition and for detecting/locating a leak source" was invented by Ruijia Wang (Singapore), Yao Ge (Singapore), Jing Jin (Singapore) and Xiang Wu (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to determining a location of a noise source where the location includes azimuth information and determining cement-bond integrity. A downhole tool disposed in a borehole may comprise one or more receivers (such as a monopole receiver and any one or more of one or more ...