US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "Device for preventing abrupt blockage in blooie line of gas drilling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,166, issued on April 15, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chendu, China).

"Device for preventing abrupt blockage in blooie line of gas drilling" was invented by Hongtao Li (Chengdu, China), Yingfeng Meng (Chengdu, China), Gao Li (Chengdu, China) and Yijian Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for preventing abrupt blockage in a blooie line of gas drilling includes a sand-storing tank body, which is connected to a rotating blowout preventer through a guiding tube, and a guiding three-way joint is set between the guiding tube and the sand-storing tank body and connected to the blooie line by a vert...