US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Oct. 27 for "Injection fluids comprising a non-ionic surfactant for treating unconventional formations" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,410, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Injection fluids comprising a non-ionic surfactant for treating unconventional 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 Art 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 formati...