ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,861, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Coordinated pumping operations" was invented by Richard Christie (Sugar Land, Texas) and Florence Binet (Antony, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein enable coordinated pumping operations. An example system may include a treatment fluid system configured to pump a treatment fluid into a wellbore, a pump-down system configured to pump a pump-down fluid into the wellbore to convey a perforating tool, a fluid valve system configured to selectively fluidly connect and disconnect the treatment fluid system and th...