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An improvement in placing cement slurry in wells in the presence of geological zones containing swelling clays or mud residues containing clays

EP 1038090 B1 · Applicant: Schlumberger Canada Limited

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  • Filed November 19, 1998 and granted August 27, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 19, 2018.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by May 19, 2024.
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FiledNovember 19, 1998
PublishedSeptember 27, 2000
GrantedAugust 27, 2003
Term endedNovember 19, 2018
Application numberEP 98965171
Classification (CPC)E21B33/13

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