US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 15 for "Processes for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,900, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed" was invented by Ki-Hyouk Choi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mazin M. Fathi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Maddala Venkata Bhanumurthy (Yanbu, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah M. Salma (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Faisal M. Almulla (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali M. Alsomali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Young-Kyoung Ahn (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for upgrading a heavy oil includes passing heavy oil and disulfide oil to a thermal cracking system that includes a thermal cracking unit and a cracker e...