US Patent Issued to Westlake Chemical on Dec. 30 for "Epoxy resin compositions and downhole uses thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,562, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston).

"Epoxy resin compositions and downhole uses thereof" was invented by Matthew Sumpter (Richmond, Texas), Ervin Mubarekyan (Stafford, Texas) and Mingbo He (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to epoxy resin compositions and uses thereof. In some embodiments, a method includes providing an emulsion to a wellbore. The emulsion comprises an epoxy resin, a curing agent, water, and a block copolymer surfactant. The method includes de-emulsifying the emulsion in the wellbore to form a water phase and an epo...