US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 21 for "Puddle job with delayed setting of resin via a polymerization reaction with an activator" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,559, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Puddle job with delayed setting of resin via a polymerization reaction with an activator" was invented by Paul J. Jones (Houston), Ernst Rudolf Man Schnell (Houston) and Lonnie Carl Helms (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A puddle job can be performed in a wellbore to secure a liner within an open-hole wellbore. A resin in liquid form can be spotted at the bottom of the wellbore. The liner can be lowered into the wellbore to displace the resin up into an annulus between the outside of the liner and the wellbore wall. The resin can be contacted ...