US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 30 for "Fiber optic enabled intelligent completion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,915, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fiber optic enabled intelligent completion" was invented by Brian Patrick McGuigan (Houston), Glenn Wilson (Houston) and Seth Cormier (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system, and a related method, are included herein. The well system, in one aspect, includes a wellbore extending through first and second subterranean hydrocarbon producing zones, as well as a feedthrough packer located in the wellbore, the feedthrough packer configured to help separate a first inflow of hydrocarbons from the first subterranean hydrocarbon producing zone...