ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,022, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Method for single-stage treatment of siliceous subterranean formations" was invented by Konstantin Viktorovich Vidma (Sugar Land, Texas), Haiyan Zhao (Sugar Land, Texas), Murtaza Ziauddin (Sugar Land, Texas) and Patrice Abivin (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, methods, and workflows for treating a siliceous geologic formation including flowing a treatment composition into the formation, wherein the treatment composition has a pH of about -1.0 to about 6.0 and includes an acid having molecular weight less than abou...