US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 15 for "Method of treating a subsurface formation with a coated proppant" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,115, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of treating a subsurface formation with a coated proppant" was invented by Hooisweng Ow (Woburn, Mass.), Wei Wang (Quincy, Mass.), Sehoon Chang (Boston) and Shannon Eichmann (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a subsurface formation with a coated proppant includes introducing the first hydraulic fracturing composition into a wellbore and the subsurface formation through a first zone of the plurality of zones of the subsurface formation; propagating at least one subsurface fracture in the first zone with the firs...