US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 5 for "Method of determining depths of wellbore reflectors" (Russian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,874, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method of determining depths of wellbore reflectors" was invented by Artem Valeryevich Kabannik (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclose relates to a robust method for automatic real-time monitoring or post-job evaluation of hydraulic fracturing operations based on predictive deconvolution of the wellhead pressure oscillations. Described are a method and system for determining depth of wellbore reflectors, implemented by performing a wellbore operation producing a pressure wave and its reflections from the wellbore refle...