US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on May 26 for "Method for generating CO2 in situ for oilfield applications using propylene carbonate" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,931, issued on May 26, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Method for generating CO2 in situ for oilfield applications using propylene carbonate" was invented by Frances Debenedictis (Houston), Justin Porter (Katy, Texas), Lirio Quintero (Houston) and Naima Bestaoui-Spurr (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating CO2 in situ for oilfield applications involves introducing propylene carbonate into a target zone and introducing a catalyst into the target zone, where the catalyst decomposes the propylene carbonate at the target zone to produce the CO2. The CO2 is subsequently...