US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 5 for "Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,485, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex" was invented by Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Zhonglin Zhang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, an integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includ...