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Chevron was granted a patent for surfactants used in hydrocarbon recovery

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What happened

In October 2026 Chevron patented polyanionic surfactant formulations for improving hydrocarbon recovery in oil and gas reservoirs.

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From the Signal API record
Signal
Patent grant

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Grant date
Oct 27, 2026
Inventors
4
Patent number
US12774415
Assignee
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.

The full record

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People

  • Gayani W. PinnawalaInventor
  • Sujeewa S. PalayangodaInventor
  • Gregory A. WinslowInventor
  • Varadarajan DwarakanathInventor
  • Kerry Kennedy SpilkerInventor
  • Robert George ShongInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
C09K 23/02
USPTO assignee
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
What the invention does
A family of charged chemical additives and methods for producing them, designed to help release more hydrocarbons from underground formations.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Oil & Gas
  • Chemical Engineering

Technologies named

  • polyanionic surfactants
  • enhanced oil recovery
  • chemical formulation

Extraction

Detected
Oct 30, 2026
signal_type
patents-company
signal_subtype
patentGrant

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}

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