US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "System and method for creating pressure waves in a well" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,616, issued on June 17, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and method for creating pressure waves in a well" was invented by Mark Callister Oettli (Richmond, Texas), Pierre Ramondenc (Clamart, France) and Charles Kearney (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates controlled creation of pressure waves in a downhole environment. The technique enables creation of, for example, dynamic underbalance (DUB) pressure waves or dynamic overbalance (DOB) pressure waves which can be used to perform desired activities downhole. According to an embodiment, a pump is coupled with ...