ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,246, issued on April 14, was assigned to China University of Petroleum (Beijing) (Beijing).
"Method and application of acidizing fracturing in carbonate formations" was invented by Zhou Zhou (Beijing), Yan Jin (Beijing) and Mian Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of reservoir stimulation in oil and gas formations, and discloses an acidizing fracturing method for carbonate formations and application of the acidizing fracturing method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: (1) designing artificial fractures according to a target location in the fracture-vug formation and a wellb...