US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 26 for "Automatically switching between managed pressure drilling and well control operations" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,604, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automatically switching between managed pressure drilling and well control operations" was invented by Suman Katanguri (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling pressure of fluid within a wellbore includes a rotating control device (RCD), a distribution manifold, a choke and kill (CK) manifold, and a managed pressure drilling (MPD) manifold fluidly connected with each other, a sensor operable to facilitate fluid measurements indicative of a property of the fluid, and a controller communicatively connect...