US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 30 for "Method of determining hydrocarbon type in source rock samples" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,528, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of determining hydrocarbon type in source rock samples" was invented by Poorna Srinivasan (Houston), David Jacobi (Spring, Texas) and Ibrahim Atwah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a hydrocarbon type for a source sample are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a thermal maturity relationship and the source sample from a geological region of interest. The method further includes separating aromatic fraction from the source sample, and separating, measuring, and identifying resp...