US Patent Issued to CNPC USA, Beijing Huamei, China National Petroleum on June 10 for "Composition and method for improving the production of petroleum hydrocarbons" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,824, issued on June 10, was assigned to CNPC USA Corp. (Houston), Beijing Huamei Inc. (Beijing) and China National Petroleum Corp. (Beijing).

"Composition and method for improving the production of petroleum hydrocarbons" was invented by Jiangshui Huang (Sugar Land, Texas), Nancy Zhou (Sugar Land, Texas), Lijun Lin (Katy, Texas), Fuchen Liu (Panjin, China), Guodong Wu (Beijing) and Bo Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel surfactant composition that comprises of two surfactant components, a solvent, and water. The surfactant composition is added to a fracturing fluid, which is then pumped downhole into a subterranean ...