US Patent Issued to PATTERSON-UTI DRILLING on Sept. 16 for "Integrated wellsite system and method for in-situ CO2 gas capture, carbonation and sequestration" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,220, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PATTERSON-UTI DRILLING COMPANY LLC (Houston).

"Integrated wellsite system and method for in-situ CO2 gas capture, carbonation and sequestration" was invented by William Andrew Hendricks Jr. (Houston), Abelardo A. Gallo (Houston) and Roger Bartlett Willis (Meadville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system to capture on-site greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide, from exhausts of greenhouse gas emission sources. The carbon dioxide is mixed with water to form a carbonated fracking fluid portion to combine with a proppant fracking fluid to form the fracking fluid for...