US Patent Issued to Southwestern Petroleum University on June 16 for "Shale gas formation oxidation induced rock burst stimulation method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,735, issued on June 16, was assigned to Southwestern Petroleum University (Chengdu, China).

"Shale gas formation oxidation induced rock burst stimulation method" was invented by Lijun You (Chengdu, China), Rui Qian (Chengdu, China), Qiuyang Cheng (Chengdu, China), Yili Kang (Chengdu, China), Nan Zhang (Chengdu, China), Yang Zhou (Chengdu, China), Yang Chen (Chengdu, China), Furong Wang (Chengdu, China) and Daoquan Fan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shale gas formation oxidation induced rock burst stimulation method, the method including: performing hydraulic fracturing stimulation on a shale gas well to be fractured...