US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 11 for "Additives to temporarily reduce viscosities in oil-based fluids" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,155, issued on March 11, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Additives to temporarily reduce viscosities in oil-based fluids" was invented by Dimitri Khramov (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additives configured to temporarily reduce viscosity in oil-based fluids are provided. The additives may be a reaction product of at least one non-ionic additive and at least one acid anhydride of maleic, succinic and/or glutaric acid. The at least one non-ionic additive may be selected from linear or branched alcohols, alcohol ethoxylates, a combination thereof, and/or a derivative thereof."

The paten...