ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,849, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Power delivery system for pulsed power drilling" was invented by Nagaraja K. Pai (Houston), Boguslaw Wiecek (Houston) and Ana Beatriz Martins Aguiar (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include a system comprising at least one coiled tubing extending from a surface of a wellbore to a bottomhole assembly (BHA); a power cable to be housed either inside or outside the at least one coiled tubing and to electrically couple a power supply at the surface of the wellbore with the BHA. The BHA comprises at least one capa...