US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Method for determining reasonable soaking time of shale oil/gas well" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,345, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Method for determining reasonable soaking time of shale oil/gas well" was invented by Mingjun Chen (Chengdu, China), Zhehan Lai (Chengdu, China), Yili Kang (Chengdu, China), Wei Jiang (Chengdu, China), Shunliang Zou (Wuhan, China), Dengyu Luo (Tianjin, China), Wangkun Cao (Xi'an, China), Jiajia Bai (Changzhou, China), Lijun You (Chengdu, China), Maoling Yan (Chengdu, China) and Xingyu Tang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining a reasonable soaking time of a shale oil/gas well, implementing testing...