US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 20 for "Method to tailor cement composition to withstand carbon dioxide injection loads" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,169, issued on May 20, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Method to tailor cement composition to withstand carbon dioxide injection loads" was invented by Siva Rama Krishna Jandhyala (The Woodlands, Texas), Gunnar Lende (Stavanger, Norway) and Walmy Cuello Jimenez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of the present disclosure relate to tailoring cement compositions to withstand carbon dioxide injection. A method comprises predicting a depth of carbonation in a cement sheath; predicting spatially varying mechanical properties of the cement composition due to the carbonation; and determining a mecha...