US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Method of controlling tensile-splitting and hydro-shearing parameters during completion of enhanced geothermal system wells" (American, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,160, issued on July 8.

"Method of controlling tensile-splitting and hydro-shearing parameters during completion of enhanced geothermal system wells" was invented by Michael Roy Chambers Sr. (Lindale, Texas), Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines (Hayling Island, Great Britain), Carl Bradley Pate (Fort Smith, Ark.), Robert Mansell Pearson (Calgary, Canada), Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa (Plano, Texas) and David Lynn Copeland (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a p...