US Patent Issued to ProtonH2 Analytics on April 1 for "In-situ process to produce hydrogen-bearing gas from underground petroleum reservoirs" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,564, issued on April 1, was assigned to ProtonH2 Analytics Ltd. (Dublin).

"In-situ process to produce hydrogen-bearing gas from underground petroleum reservoirs" was invented by Ian Gates (Calgary, Canada) and Jingyi Wang (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to treatment of a petroleum reservoir to produce a hydrogen-bearing gas. Implementations may include methods and systems for processing a reservoir to generate hydrogen in-situ and produce a large fraction of the generated hydrogen to the surface. Processing the reservoir may include injecting oxygen into the reservoir to enable combustion within...