US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Dec. 9 for "Recycling produced water for hydrocarbon and mineral co-production" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,622, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Recycling produced water for hydrocarbon and mineral co-production" was invented by Ahmed Zarzor Hussien Yaseri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Alyousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mustafa Al-Ramadan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of co-generating hydrocarbon and mineral products by recycling an aqueous byproduct is described. The method includes (a) obtaining produced water from a subterranean reservoir via a production well, in fluid communication with a first side of the subterranean rese...