US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 9 for "Sequential selection of locations for formation pressure test for pressure gradient analysis" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,701, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sequential selection of locations for formation pressure test for pressure gradient analysis" was invented by Ahmed Fouda (Houston), Bin Dai (Houston) and Christopher Michael Jones (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise disposing a downhole pressure sampling tool into a wellbore; calculating a prior distribution based at least in part on one or more proxy logs, moving the downhole pressure sampling tool to a first location in the wellbore, taking at least one measurement with the downhole pressure sampling tool at the first lo...