US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 10 for "PCP system with a horizontally oriented PMM" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,196, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"PCP system with a horizontally oriented PMM" was invented by Andrei Seliukou (Calgary, Canada), Sharanpreet Singh (Calgary, Canada) and Benigno Segundo Montilla Jimenez (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A progressive cavity pump system including a pump string disposed in a wellbore. The pump string includes a progressive cavity pump and a rod string, wherein the rod string is rotatable about a rod string axis to rotate a rotor of the progressive cavity pump. The progressive cavity pump system includes a permanent magnetic motor...