ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,387, issued on June 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Low carbon footprint expansive composition and methods of making and using same" was invented by Gunnar Lende (Stavanger, Norway), Rahul Jadhav (Stavanger, Norway) and Thomas Jason Pisklak (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a cementitious material, a pozzolanic material, aplite, and an aqueous fluid. Also disclosed herein is a method of servicing a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, comprising: placing the composition into the wellbore; and allowing the composition to form a set cement. Th...