US Patent Issued to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras on March 18 for "Oil recovery method integrated with the capture, utilization and storage of CO2 through a cavern in saline rock" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,960, issued on March 18, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"Oil recovery method integrated with the capture, utilization and storage of CO2 through a cavern in saline rock" was invented by Edgard Poiate Junior (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention finds its field of application among the advanced oil recovery methods, which must occur simultaneously and integrated with the capture, utilization, and storage of CO2 through a cavern built in offshore saline rock. More particularly the invention refers to offshore oil wells where there is an evaporitic roc...