US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 21 for "In-situ composite polymeric structures for far-field diversion during hydraulic fracturing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,736, issued on April 21, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"In-situ composite polymeric structures for far-field diversion during hydraulic fracturing" was invented by Patrice Abivin (Sugar Land, Texas), Konstantin Viktorovich Vidma (Sugar Land, Texas), Wai Sum Wilson Yip (Houston) and John Still (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods include pumping a fracturing pad fluid into a subterranean formation under conditions of sufficient rate and pressure to create at least one fracture in the subterranean formation, the fracturing pad fluid including a carrier fluid and a plurality of bridgi...