US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 23 for "Reducing CO 2 emissions during a wellbore clean-up" (Canadian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,911, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Reducing CO 2 emissions during a wellbore clean-up" was invented by Bertrand Claude Theuveny (Paris), William J. Bailey (Cambridge, Mass.), Kashif Rashid (Cambridge, Mass.) and Glen Andrew Hay (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure includes a mixer configured to mix air and hydrocarbons and a burner configured to receive the mixed air and hydrocarbons and to generate syngas. The system also includes a cooling system configured to receive the syngas and to cool the syngas to form cooled syn...