US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Dec. 2 for "Distribution of hydraulic fracturing fluids" (American, Tunisian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,751, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Distribution of hydraulic fracturing fluids" was invented by Farid Hamida (Sfax, Tunisia), Bruce Mackay (Missouri City, Texas), Herbe Gomez Conzatti Y Martinez (Sugar Land, Texas), Karishma Prasad (Sugar Land, Texas) and Belgin Baser-Langenau (Oldenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to a method that includes using a low-shear addition system at a centralized facility to add a friction-reducing additive to a fluid to produce friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing slurry. The method al...