US Patent Issued to Universal Chemical Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Methods for treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations" (Missouri, Alaska, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,297, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Universal Chemical Solutions Inc. (Dripping Springs, Texas).

"Methods for treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations" was invented by Tadd Wallace (Osceola, Mo.), Kevin Lange (Houston), Dave Szabo (Anchorage, Ala.), Susan Starr (Anchorage, Alaska) and Andrea Balestrini (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations, in which at least some of the methods include pumping into a wellbore a treatment composition comprising LPG combined with one or more surfactants each of which is fully or partially dissolved into the LPG, cau...