US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 7 for "Measurement of multi-phase wellbore fluid" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,009, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Measurement of multi-phase wellbore fluid" was invented by Julian Drew (Aurora, Colo.), Barry Fish (Arvada, Colo.), Crispin Doyle (Swindon, Great Britain) and Cole Aaron Grandjean (Santa Fe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining one or more characteristics of a multiphase fluid flow within a flow line of a hydrocarbon well. The system can include a multiphase flow metering probe, a measurement device, and a computing device. The multiphase flow metering probe may comprise a unitary assembly of components including an optical fib...