US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 19 for "Degradable fibers for water savings in hydraulic fracturing" (American, Algerian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,100, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Degradable fibers for water savings in hydraulic fracturing" was invented by Ivan Sergeevich Glaznev (Sugar Land, Texas), Abdul Muqtadir Khan (Sugar Land, Texas), Tayeb Khetib (Clamart, France) and Hadjer Khelkhal (Hassi Messaoud, Algeria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to introducing degradable fibers into a clean fluid having no proppants contained therein to produce a fiber-containing fluid, and injecting the fiber-containing fluid into a wellbore extending through a subterranean formation ...