US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 29 for "Multifunctional waste additives for subterranean formation treatment fluids, and methods and systems related thereto" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,602, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multifunctional waste additives for subterranean formation treatment fluids, and methods and systems related thereto" was invented by Tariq Abdulsattar Almubarak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Majid Mohammadkamal Rafie (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fares Majed Alotaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Treatment fluids, systems, and methods including preparing a multifunctional waste additive (MWA) comprising a cellulose extract derived by contacting a plurality of cigarette filter waste ...