US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 11 for "Detection and prediction of screen outs during downhole fracturing operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,354, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Detection and prediction of screen outs during downhole fracturing operations" was invented by William Ruhle (Houston), Dinesh Ananda Shetty (Houston) and Srividhya Sridhar (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to predict or detect screen outs by measuring pressure conditions in the well in real-time, and that conducts mitigation of the condition. Pressure responses of the well are detected during a fracture operation. The system processes the pressure responses by removing the effects of non-screen out related factors. A mathem...