US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on May 12 for "Injection fluids for stimulating fractured formations" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,277, issued on May 12, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Injection fluids for stimulating fractured formations" was invented by Dustin L. Walker (Dallas), Gayani W. Pinnawala (Houston), Nabijan Nizamidin (Emeryville, Calif.), Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston), Guo-Qing Tang (Mountain View, Calif.), Dustin J. Lowry (Pinole, Calif.), Tetsuo A. Inouye (Sebastopol, Calif.) and Taimur Malik (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure include compositions and methods that stabilize a injection fluid when exposed to reservoir conditions, reducing formation damage and increasing the amount of ...