US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 17 for "Polymer-based additives for shale stabilizations, wellbore fluid compositions comprising said additives, and methods of producing said compositions and improving shale stabilizations using said compositions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,977, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Polymer-based additives for shale stabilizations, wellbore fluid compositions comprising said additives, and methods of producing said compositions and improving shale stabilizations using said compositions" was invented by Dimitri Khramov (Katy, Texas) and Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymer-based additives improve shale stabilizations by being incorporated into wellbore fluid compositions for one or more wellbore operations or applications. Methods of producing said compositions and using said comp...