US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 15 for "Boosting well performance in geothermal systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,966, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Boosting well performance in geothermal systems" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for extracting thermal energy from a conventional geothermal reservoir. One aspect involves drilling or accessing a production well that intersects the conventional geothermal reservoir, and detonating at least one linear shaped charge to enlarge or open a naturally-occurring fracture of the conventional geothermal reservoir at the intersection of the naturally-occur...