MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517054803 A) filed by Schlumberger Technology B. V., Hague, Netherlands, on June 6, for 'hydrocarbon and sulfide removal in direct aqueous extraction.'
Inventor(s) include Binet, Florence; Bhattacharya, Arindam; Sams, Gary; Perroni, Dominic; and Mahavadi, Sharath Chandra.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods of treating an aqueous source are described herein that include reducing a concentration of sulfide species in a stream obtained from the aqueous source to form an extraction feed and extracting ions from the extraction f...