US Patent Issued on April 1 for "Lower-cost, higher efficiency, environmentally friendly, self-dispersible recovery, and stimulation fluid for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and improved oil recovery (IOR)" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,283, issued on April 1.

"Lower-cost, higher efficiency, environmentally friendly, self-dispersible recovery, and stimulation fluid for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and improved oil recovery (IOR)" was invented by Naveed Aslam (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well stimulation method based on a self-dispersible and non-surface functionalized dispersion fluid to recover hydrocarbons from subterranean formation in conventional and non-conventional mode is described and claimed. The method includes introducing a self-dispersible, non-functionalized, three-dimensional (3D) crumpled graphene balls/structures into a water slu...