US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 15 for "Carbon dioxide enhanced hydrocarbon recovery methods coupled with underground hydrogen storage" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,539, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Carbon dioxide enhanced hydrocarbon recovery methods coupled with underground hydrogen storage" was invented by Jun Gao (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hyung T. Kwak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Alyousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrocarbon extraction may be coupled with subterranean hydrogen storage. For example, a method of hydrocarbon extraction and hydrogen storage may include: introducing carbon dioxide into a subterranean formation via one or more injection wells, th...