US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 2 for "Catalyst for exothermic reaction in a wellbore" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,446, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Catalyst for exothermic reaction in a wellbore" was invented by Pratiksha Shivaji Meher (Pune, India), Amit Agrawal (Pune, India), Jason Maxey (Houston) and Ramesh Uppuluri (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a low-temperature catalyst and method of use for causing an exothermic reaction in a low temperature environment. The mixture can include sodium nitrite, an ammonium-based compound, and an oxidizer and can be injected into a fluid flow path. The fluid flow path can be a pipeline, a flowline, a wellbore, or a subterranea...