ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,452, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Multiphase flow instability control" was invented by Kjetil Havre (Lysaker, Norway), Christian Trudvang (Lysaker, Norway) and Gustav Kjorrefjord (Lysaker, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include detecting instability of multiphase fluid flow in a multiphase fluid production system using sensor measurements from the multiphase fluid production system; and, responsive to the detection of instability, increasing gas injection into the multiphase fluid production system until a variation metric of the sensor measurements decreas...