US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 18 for "Processes for producing petrochemical products from crude oil" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,704, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for producing petrochemical products from crude oil" was invented by Md Ashraful Islam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Gopal Juttu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdennour Bourane (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for producing products from crude oil include separating the crude oil into at least a lesser boiling point fraction and a greater boiling point fraction and passing the fractions to a reactor system that includes a riser section and a downer section. An outer boundary of the downer section is defined by a f...