US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Boosting well performance in geothermal systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,163, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Boosting well performance in geothermal systems" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for extracting thermal energy from a geothermal reservoir. One aspect involves drilling at least one sidetrack that extends from a primary wellbore and intersects at least one fracture target in the geothermal reservoir. The at least one sidetrack can be configured to increase fluid flow into the primary wellbore from the at least one fracture target. The increase of f...