US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Monitoring the performance of hydraulic pumping equipment" (Russian, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,738, issued on June 17, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Monitoring the performance of hydraulic pumping equipment" was invented by Konstantin Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Ivan Vladimirovich Velikanov (Lysaker, Norway), Sergey Dmitrievich Parkhonyuk (Moscow), Denis Viktorovich Bannikov (Sugar Land, Texas) and Danil Sergeyevich Pantsurkin (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mixing equipment for hydraulic fracturing operations undergoes wear with continued use. Monitoring the performance of the mixing equipment and predicting failure may be performed by measuring discha...