US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Sept. 23 for "Method for microbially enhanced oil recovery" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,441, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for microbially enhanced oil recovery" was invented by Moataz Mohamed Hamed Abdelmoneim Dowaidar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Saravanan Sankaran Sankaran (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated production water through the microbiological process of culturing salt-tolerant bacteria in a high-salt cell culture medium for decontamination. The high-salt cell culture medium contains sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, sodium bicarbonate, calcium chl...