ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,933, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Friction reducer slurries with suspending agent" was invented by I Wayan Rakananda Saputra (Houston), Nicole Mast (Houston), Denise Nicole Benoit (Houston), Larry Steven Eoff (Houston) and Daniel Bryant Eddings (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Friction reducers can be included in a liquid concentrate for use in treatment fluids in oil and gas operations. The liquid concentrate can be a slurry and include oil or a brine as the continuous phase and the friction reducer in dry form as the dispersed phase. The liquid concentrate can be an invert e...