US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 7 for "Event detection using hydraulic simulations" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Event detection using hydraulic simulations" was invented by Dale E. Jamison (Houston), Mateusz Michal Dyngosz (Houston) and Aidan Porter (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining the likelihood of an event occurring during a drilling operation can utilize various input parameters collected from one or more sensors located downhole or at a surface location of the borehole undergoing the drilling operation. The collected input parameters can be weighted according to user parameters and then calculated over time to determine a t...