ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,293, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Oriented-perforation tool" was invented by Erick Lowe (Clamart, France), Andrew Prisbell (Sugar Land, Texas) and Steven Hernandez (Rosharon, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shaped charge tools are provided for perforating hydrocarbon wells. A shaped charge frame assembly may include a tubular electrical conductor and a shaped charge frame disposed around the tubular electrical conductor and rotatably engaged with the tubular electrical conductor. One or more bearings may be used to engage the shaped charge frame with the tubular electrica...