US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE on June 30 for "Method for producing natural gas from gas hydrates" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,038, issued on June 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE (Lafayette, La.).

"Method for producing natural gas from gas hydrates" was invented by Boyun Guo (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing natural gas from subterranean gas hydrate deposits. A first injection wellbore includes a lateral section that extends into a subterranean geothermal zone. A second production wellbore includes a lateral section that extends into a subterranean gas hydrate zone. Water pumped into the first injection wellbore is heated by heat energy from the subterranean geothermal zone and is thereafter inject...