US Patent Issued to ChampionX on May 26 for "Methods and compositions for squeeze life enhancement" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,609, issued on May 26, was assigned to ChampionX LLC (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and compositions for squeeze life enhancement" was invented by Manojkumar Ramnikalal Bhandari (Sugar Land, Texas), Renaldo Christmas (Richmond, Texas) and Ian Littlehales (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for inhibiting scale formation in subterranean reservoirs. The methods may include depositing silica-based nanoparticles on a surface of the subterranean reservoir and transporting a scale inhibitor to the surface of the subterranean reservoir. The scale inhibitor may adhere to the silica-based...