US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 7 for "Radiation activated well treatment" (Russian, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,407, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Radiation activated well treatment" was invented by Timur Zharnikov (Moscow), Maxim Orlov (Moscow) and Tao Chen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well treatment composition may include a capsule and a treatment agent solution within the capsule. The treatment agent solution may have a treatment agent. The system may include a radiation source: neutron, gamma, X-ray, and/or ultraviolet. A method may include introducing the well treatment composition downhole in wellbore circulation fluid, and introducing a radiation source...