US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS on Dec. 9 for "Enhanced oil recovery using fatty acid salts" (Saudi Arabia, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,621, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Enhanced oil recovery using fatty acid salts" was invented by Subhash Ayirala (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Gmira (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Theis Solling (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali Binabdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Yousef (Dhahran, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fatty acid salts may be used in subterranean reservoirs for conformance control. For example, methods may include: introducing a fatty acid salt including a fatty acid and a metal cation including a t...