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Texaco Inc.

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3,168Patents
35Active
3,168Granted
47Portfolio score

Filing activity: Aug 5, 1969 → Nov 9, 2010 · 30 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6536950B1 Sapphire reinforced thermocouple protection tube Physics 484 Expired
US4590326A Multi-element thermocouple Physics 459 Expired
US4524826A Method of heating an oil shale formation Fixed Constructions 348 Expired
US4576231A Method and apparatus for combating encroachment by in situ treated formations Fixed Constructions 340 Expired
US4592423A Hydrocarbon stratum retorting means and method Fixed Constructions 316 Expired
US4682652A Producing hydrocarbons through successively perforated intervals of a horizontal well between two vertical wells Fixed Constructions 301 Expired
US5632336A Method for improving injectivity of fluids in oil reservoirs Fixed Constructions 290 Expired
US3947683A Combination of epithermal and inelastic neutron scattering methods to locate coal and oil shale zones Physics 275 Expired
US5826655A Method for enhanced recovery of viscous oil deposits Fixed Constructions 223 Expired
US5571403A Process for extracting hydrocarbons from diatomite Chemistry; Metallurgy 203 Expired
US4077471A Surfactant oil recovery process usable in high temperature, high salinity formations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 175 Expired
US5345756A Partial oxidation process with production of power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 171 Expired
US5640491A Control system using an adaptive neural network for target and path optimization for a multivariable, nonlinear process Performing Operations; Transporting 156 Expired
US4577691A Method and apparatus for producing viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation Fixed Constructions 152 Expired
US5551513A Prepacked screen Fixed Constructions 144 Expired
US5295350A Combined power cycle with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and synthesis or fuel gas Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 140 Expired
US3948672A Permeable cement composition and method Chemistry; Metallurgy 136 Expired
US5604184A Chemically inert resin coated proppant system for control of proppant flowback in hydraulically fractured wells Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 133 Expired
US3955993A Method and composition for stabilizing incompetent oil-containing formations Chemistry; Metallurgy 126 Expired
US4413156A Manufacture of synthetic lubricant additives from low molecular weight olefins using boron trifluoride catalysts Chemistry; Metallurgy 123 Expired
US5199490A Formation treating Fixed Constructions 121 Expired
US4863623A Novel VI improver, dispersant, and anti-oxidant additive and lubricating oil composition containing same Chemistry; Metallurgy 119 Expired
US6547957B1 Process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil Chemistry; Metallurgy 113 Expired
US4367352A Oligomerized olefins for lubricant stock Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 109 Expired
US4482464A Hydrocarbyl-substituted mono- and bis-succinimide having polyamine chain linked hydroxyacyl radicals and mineral oil compositions containing same Chemistry; Metallurgy 108 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.