US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Sept. 9 for "Organic acid-based enhanced waterflooding" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,358, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Organic acid-based enhanced waterflooding" was invented by Vladimir Alvarado (Laramie, Wyo.), Teresa Reilly (Laramie, Wyo.) and Kelly Meyers (Casper, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a hydrocarbon recovery material includes an organic acid and a water material, the organic acid including a naphthenic acid, L-proline, or combinations thereof. In another embodiment, an oil recovery method includes injecting a treatment fluid into a reservoir under reservoir conditions, the reservoir containing hydrocarbons, and the treatment fluid incl...