ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,129, issued on July 1, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Foamed squeeze treatment in wells" was invented by Qiwei Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tao Chen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hemant K. Sharma (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a subterranean formation to protect against solid deposition and corrosion attack includes flowing a pre-flush fluid to a specified downhole location within the subterranean formation. A main treatment fluid is flowed to the specified downhole location. The main treatment fluid includes a scale inhibitor configured to inhibit formatio...