US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 1 for "Subsurface sequestration of CO2 in subsurface formations" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,559, issued on April 1, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Subsurface sequestration of CO2 in subsurface formations" was invented by Simon A. Stewart (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of subsurface sequestration of CO2 in a subsurface formation, the method including: producing formation water and hydrocarbons from a first well located within the first region while concurrently injecting an aqueous CO2 solution into a second well located within the second region, wherein the subsurface formation comprises a first region and a second region, the first region and the second regio...