US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS on Aug. 26 for "Method for consolidating sand in hydrocarbon reservoirs" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,311, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for consolidating sand in hydrocarbon reservoirs" was invented by Sulaiman A. Alarifi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mobeen Murtaza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdul Rehman Baig (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed A. Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Shahzad Kamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Manar M. Alahmari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulmohsen Humam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preventing the flow of soil grains into oil and gas wells is high...