US Patent Issued to BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE on Feb. 3 for "Slot-drill enhanced oil recovery method" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,540, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Slot-drill enhanced oil recovery method" was invented by Olufemi Morounfopefoluwa Olorode (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for slot-drill enhanced oil recovery in a formation includes providing a wellbore in a reservoir of the formation, the reservoir having a top and a bottom, cutting a first horizontal slot-drill fracture at the top of the reservoir, cutting a second horizontal slot-drill fracture at the bottom of the reservoir, injecting a fluid into the rese...