US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 23 for "Wellbore servicing compositions containing a latex additive" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,634, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Wellbore servicing compositions containing a latex additive" was invented by William Cecil Pearl (Houston), Travis Allen Patterson (Houston) and Samuel J. Lewis (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore servicing fluid comprising (a) a fluid loss additive comprising (i) a biopolymer gum and (ii) a latex; and (b) a base fluid wherein a fluid loss in the wellbore servicing fluid is reduced by from about 50% to about 80% when compared to the fluid loss in the absence of the biopolymer gum. A method of preparing a wellbore servicing fluid compri...