US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 10 for "Combination of a surface well testing facility and a cable formation tester with an active circulation system for obtaining inflow and measuring formation fluid parameters on the surface" (Saudi Arabia, French, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,049, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Combination of a surface well testing facility and a cable formation tester with an active circulation system for obtaining inflow and measuring formation fluid parameters on the surface" was invented by Yermek Kaipov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yakov Dzhalatyan (Moscow), Mikhail Charupa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hadrien Dumont (Paris), Bertrand Claude Theuveny (Paris) and Abilkassym Kishauov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for conveying a WFT via drill pipe within a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation and sett...