US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 29 for "Elastomeric wellbore seal with silicon-based polymer" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,384, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Elastomeric wellbore seal with silicon-based polymer" was invented by Somen Kumar Bhudolia (Singapore), Chad W. Glaesman (Singapore), Sandeep Thatathil (Singapore) and Arpana Verma (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastomeric material that includes a silicon-based polymer can be positioned in a wellbore to provide fluid control with respect to the wellbore, such as by isolating a well interval of the wellbore. The elastomeric material can be formed using a mixture of a matrix polymer and a heterobifunctional siloxane polymer that can be...