US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on June 23 for "Compositions and methods for foam stimulation" (Texas, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,623, issued on June 23, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for foam stimulation" was invented by Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston), Taimur Malik (Houston), Lin Zuo (Richmond, Calif.), Jimin Daniel Zhou (Richmond, Calif.), Nabijan Nizamidin (Houston), Gregory A. Winslow (Houston), Reza Banki (Moon, Pa.) and Mohamad Salman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are foam precursor compositions, foamed compositions, and methods of using these foamed compositions for the stimulation of unconventional reservoirs."

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/581...