US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVESITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 9 for "Method of extracting and separating with enhanced oil recovery" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,360, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVESITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of extracting and separating with enhanced oil recovery" was invented by Mahmoud Atef Abdulhamid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhancing oil recovery from a carbonate reservoir containing a hydrocarbon mixture includes injecting the carbonate reservoir with a sea-water solution comprising a citric acid-based additive to displace the hydrocarbon mixture from the carbonate reservoir thereby forming a hydrocarbon mixture containing sea-water mixture; and separating the hydrocarbon mi...