US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on July 22 for "Polyolefin-coke composite granules as a hydraulic fracturing proppant" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,828, issued on July 22, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Polyolefin-coke composite granules as a hydraulic fracturing proppant" was invented by Dragan Stojkovic (Spring, Texas), Robert M. Shirley (The Woodlands, Texas), Lee J. Hall (The Woodlands, Texas) and Kendal Decker (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proppant includes polyolefin-coke composite granules, and a hydrocarbon well uses such proppant. Methods employ the proppant in a hydrocarbon well. The hydrocarbon well includes a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region and a downhole tubular that extends within the w...