US Patent Issued to Mawetal on April 22 for "Fuel compositions from light tight oils and high sulfur fuel oils" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,268, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mawetal LLC (Nacogdoches, Texas).

"Fuel compositions from light tight oils and high sulfur fuel oils" was invented by Mohammed Wohaibi (Nacogdoches, Texas) and Tom F. Pruitt (Nacogdoches, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to prepare a low sulfur fuel from hydrocarbon sources, such as light tight oil and high sulfur fuel oil, often less desired by conventional refiners, who split crude into a wide range of differing products and may prefer presence of wide ranges (C3 or C5 to C20 or higher) of hydrocarbons. These fuels can be produced by separating feeds into untreated an...