US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 24 for "Hydrating dry friction reducer in a fluid stream for hydraulic fracturing" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,396, issued on March 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Hydrating dry friction reducer in a fluid stream for hydraulic fracturing" was invented by Chad Fisher (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hydrating dry friction reducer in a fluid stream for hydraulic fracturing includes a discharge pump, a hydrostatic accumulator fluidly coupled to the discharge pump, a mixer fluidly coupled to the hydrostatic accumulator, a friction reducer feeder configured to feed dry friction reducer into the mixer, and a supply pump configured to pump aqueous fluid from a fluid supply into the mixer. T...