US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Jan. 20 for "Injectivity improvement with thioalcohols" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,013, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Injectivity improvement with thioalcohols" was invented by Ole Haugvaldstad (Houston), Zhengwei Liu (Houston) and Scott Lehrer (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thioalcohols are useful for dissolving and removing aldehyde-containing deposits from conduit and/or volumes that are clogged or blocked by the aldehyde-containing deposits, and also to prevent or inhibit aldehydes from polymerizing or otherwise forming aldehyde-containing deposits within conduits and/or volumes."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2022, under Applicatio...