US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals on Feb. 3 for "Compositions for enhancing viscosity of subterranean fluids utilizing chelating agents" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,271, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Compositions for enhancing viscosity of subterranean fluids utilizing chelating agents" was invented by Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Amro Othman (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Muhammed Shahzad Kamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Murtada Saleh Aljawad (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 comprisin...