US Patent Issued to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH on Aug. 12 for "Process for extracting a crude oil with injection of resin" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,957, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).

"Process for extracting a crude oil with injection of resin" was invented by Frederic Tort (Solaize, France), Olivier Langlois (Solaize, France) and Mohamed Saidoun (Solaize, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for extracting a crude oil from a rock formation containing crude oil comprises the following steps: (i) a first step of forced injection of a modified alkylphenol-aldehyde resin into the rock formation containing a crude oil, and (ii) a second step of extracting the crude oil from the rock formation. The modified alkyl phenol-aldeh...