US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 11 for "Fairings for mobile downhole tools in producing wells" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,321, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fairings for mobile downhole tools in producing wells" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Wei Zhang (Houston), Adan Herrera (Carrollton, Texas), Aswin Balasubramanian (Spring, Texas) and Sudhir Gupta (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile downhole tools with fairings and methods of using the same. A mobile downhole tool is introduced into a wellbore. The mobile downhole tool has a housing with a thickness sufficient to support a pressure differential between an interior surface of the housing and an exterior surface of the hous...