US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 15 for "Dissolution of manganese oxides in a wellbore" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,625, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Dissolution of manganese oxides in a wellbore" was invented by Kingsley Nzeadibe (Houston), Hui Zhou (Houston), Emily Hart (Houston), Dorianne Arlene Castillo (Houston), Pramod Kumar Goswami (Pune, India) and Harshada Thakar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Treatment fluids and methods for dissolving manganese oxides in a wellbore. A treatment fluid includes an activator selected from the group consisting of hydroxylamine, isopropyl hydroxylamine, ethanolamine, amino alcohols, salts thereof, and combinations thereof; an acid and/or acid-...