US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 28 for "Methods of forming and maintaining conductive propped fractures in SAGD and geothermal well applications" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,777, issued on July 28, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Methods of forming and maintaining conductive propped fractures in SAGD and geothermal well applications" was invented by Philip D. Nguyen (Houston) and Ronald Glen Dusterhoft (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming propped fractures in a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore is provided. The method includes injecting a fracturing fluid through a (e.g., geothermal, SAGD) wellbore into the subterranean formation, thus creating fractures in the subterranean formation, whereby the aggregates and dissolvable particulat...