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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4535058 | Characterization of oncogenes and assays based thereon Experiments designed to define the differences between an oncogene isolated from human bladder cancer cells and its corresponding proto-oncogene are described herein. By a series of in vitro recombinations, the difference was initially isolated to a 350 k... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4520109 | Fluorocarbon tracers and tracing method A material is traced to its origin or the flow pattern of a fluid medium is defined by incorporating into the material or fluid medium a perfluorinated C9 -C18 polycyclic hydrocarbon containing at least two bridgehead carbon atoms li... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4501324 | Method for identifying the source of an oil A method for tagging an oil so that subsequently it may be identified as to source by incorporating into the oil as a tracer material a minor amount of certain halohydrocarbons or halocarbons, utilizing the so-tagged oil in any desired manner wherein cont... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4487837 | Radiation method for determining brine tolerant surfactants in complex mixtures This invention provides a method for determining the concentration of a brine tolerant sulfonate surfactant in a complex mixture containing, in addition to said brine tolerant sulfonate surfactant, lignosulfonates, crude oil, salts, and water and, optiona... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4420565 | Method for determining flow patterns in subterranean petroleum and mineral containing formations The method for determining flow patterns within a subterranean formation penetrated by a spaced apart injection system and production system that comprises injecting into the formation at a predetermined depth from the injection system a solution containi... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4352674 | Method of tracing a well drilling mud In a method of tracing a well drilling mud by determining the concentration of a tracer ion in samples of filtrate from a drilling mud which contains a predetermined concentration of the tracer ion, the improvement wherein the tracer ion is the acetate io... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4303411 | Fluorine-containing tracers for subterranean petroleum and mineral containing formations There is disclosed a method for determining flow patterns within a subterranean formation by injecting as a tracer a water soluble alkaline metal salt of inorganic or organic compounds having fluorine in the anion. The tracer compounds of the invention ar... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4264329 | Tracing flow of fluids A tracer system is disclosed which is especially useful for following fluid flow in underground reservoirs. Metal chelates, preferably derived from EDTA and containing a functional group which reacts with a fluorogenic agent, are used as tracers. Liquid c... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4168746 | Single well surfactant test to evaluate surfactant floods using multi tracer method Data useful for evaluating the effectiveness of or designing an enhanced recovery process said process involving mobilizing and moving hydrocarbons through a hydrocarbon bearing subterranean formation from an injection well to a production well by injecti... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4058366 | Determination of flow characteristics of petroliferous formations A method for determining the flow characteristics of subterranean petroliferous formations by injecting a tracer and a polysaccharide polymer having glucose moieties into said formation, recovering said tracer and polysaccharide from production well efflu... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4055399 | Tracers in predetermined concentration ratios A method for tracing the flow of a plurality of fluid slugs injected into a subsurface formation using a number of tracers smaller than the number of fluid slugs. Single tracers are used in a number of fluid slugs equal to the number of tracers. In the re... | 10/25/1977 |
| 3993131 | Tracing flow of petroleum in underground reservoirs The flow path of petroleum in underground reservoirs is monitored by injecting a stable free radical, or spin label, into the reservoir as a tracer which becomes detectable in a sample taken from a producing well. Detection of the spin label is by electro... | 11/23/1976 |
