US Patent Issued to Empire Petroleum on June 2 for "System and method for superheated working fluid injection into a well" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,366, issued on June 2, was assigned to Empire Petroleum Corp. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"System and method for superheated working fluid injection into a well" was invented by Phil E. Mulacek (The Woodlands, Texas), William J. West (The Woodlands, Texas) and Terrance L. Strickland (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid heater may include an inlet operable to receive a working fluid at a first temperature, a heat exchanger coupled to the inlet and operable to heat the working fluid to a second temperature, a burner operable to supply heat to the heat exchanger, and an outlet operable to receive the heated working fl...