US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals on Oct. 14 for "Methods and compositions for thermally shocking subsurface formations" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,282, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and compositions for thermally shocking subsurface formations" was invented by Fahad Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Aldeen Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Arshad Raza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shirish Patil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thermally shocking a subsurface formation may comprise introducing an endothermic fluid composition into a wellbore fluidly connecte...