US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 27 for "Method to reduce carbon dioxide recovery from subsurface locations" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,989, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method to reduce carbon dioxide recovery from subsurface locations" was invented by Abdul Muqtadir Khan (Sugar Land, Texas) and Melissa Chia Mei Teoh (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for methods that may be used for effectively utilizing carbon dioxide in a plurality of hydrocarbon recovery operations in a plurality of wellbore types and configurations. A system may be used to increase or reduce residual carbon dioxide saturation within a wellbore and increase or reduce carbon dioxide recovery for wellbore ...