ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,142, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu, China).

"Method of preparing degassed oil representative of live oil with equivalent minimum miscible pressure" was invented by Shuoshi Wang (Chengdu, China), Wenhua Zhao (Chengdu, China), Ping Guo (Chengdu, China), Zhouhua Wang (Chengdu, China), Jianfen Du (Chengdu, China), Yisheng Hu (Chengdu, China) and Huang Liu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Deviation theory-based method is provided to prepare representative degassed oil with equivalent minimum miscible pressure to live oil. The method can reduce the number of ...