US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 29 for "Application of organic oxidizer and enzyme combination as breaker fluid for filter cake cleanup" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,385, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Application of organic oxidizer and enzyme combination as breaker fluid for filter cake cleanup" was invented by Tint Htoo Aung (Houston), Cedric Manzoleloua (Houston), Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam (Houston) and Edward Derkach (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include introducing a breaker fluid into a wellbore having a filter-cake on the walls therein, wherein the breaker fluid comprises an organic peroxide; an aqueous solution; an enzyme; and a chelating agent; wherein the breaker fluid degrades a filter-cake along th...