US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 7 for "Stabilizer including modified helical wellbore stabilizing elements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,580, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Stabilizer including modified helical wellbore stabilizing elements" was invented by Philip Park-Hung Leung (Houston), Michael John Strachan (Houston) and John Kenneth Snyder (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stabilizer for use in a wellbore. The stabilizer, in one example, includes a downhole tubular coupleable to a downhole conveyance in a wellbore. In accordance with this example, the stabilizer additionally includes two or more helical wellbore stabilizing elements extending radially outward from the downhole component, the two ...