US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on June 17 for "Use of a borate-acid buffer in oil and gas operations" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,245, issued on June 17, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Use of a borate-acid buffer in oil and gas operations" was invented by Nabijan Nizamidin (Houston), Gayani W. Pinnawala (Katy, Texas), Guo-Qing Tang (Mountain View, Calif.), Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston), Gregory A. Winslow (Houston), Jordan Taylor Isbell (Houston) and Taimur Malik (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions comprising borate-acid buffers, as well as methods of using these compositions in oil and gas operations, including enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations, fracturing operations, stimulation operatio...