US Patent Issued to STAVANGER ENGINEERING AS on March 4 for "Systems and methods for handling control lines in well operations" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,318, issued on March 4, was assigned to STAVANGER ENGINEERING AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Systems and methods for handling control lines in well operations" was invented by Tomas Johnsen (Hafrsfjord, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control line handling apparatus incudes a base, a guide head comprising at least one guide slot for guiding a control line, an actuator arm which is configured to move the guide head relative to the base between a first, retracted position and a second, advanced position in which the guide head is adjacent to a pipe string, and a guide tower which is arranged to extend vertically upwards from the base...