United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 13 May 2003

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage
application with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of
the application without the signature of all inventors. The petition
has been granted. A notice has been sent to the last known address of
the non-signing inventor. The inventor whose signature is missing
(Allen R. Toney) may join in the application by promptly filing an
appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63. The
international application number is PCT/EP99/03946 and was filed on 03
June 1999 in the names of Les Johnson, Kamal Arsanious, David Quinn,
Patrick Murphy, and Allen R. Toney for the invention entitled
Shear-Sensitive Plugging Fluid for Plugging and A Method for Plugging a
Subterranean Formation Zone. The national stage application is assigned
number 09/980,463 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c) date of 11 December 2002.