US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 20 for "Liquid loaded well unloading reduction system" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,295, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Liquid loaded well unloading reduction system" was invented by Sandeep Verma (Cambridge, Mass.), Kashif Rashid (Cambridge, Mass.) and Abhishek Sharma (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include implementing a control scheme for a plurality of wells; using the control scheme, classifying each of the wells; based on the classifying, identifying one or more of the wells as experiencing liquid loading; and issuing a control instruction to perform an unloading operation for the one or more of the wells."

The patent was fil...