US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals on Feb. 10 for "Method and compositions for stimulating subterranean formations" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,831, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and compositions for stimulating subterranean formations" was invented by Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Amro Othman (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Murtada Saleh Aljawad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammed Shahzad Kamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Qasim Sahu (Muntazah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for use in well stimulation operations, the composition comprising a saline fluid, the...