US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 10 for "Compact static high-pressure, high-temperature gas oil separation plant systems and methods" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,831, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Compact static high-pressure, high-temperature gas oil separation plant systems and methods" was invented by Abdulrahman Alhumud (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Samusideen Adewale Salu (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact pressure energy conservation gas oil separation plant system includes an inline separator device (ILS) that receives a wild crude oil and separates at least 95% of free gas and free water from the wild crude oil and discharges an ILS outlet crude stream, a wet-dry heat exchanger for heating the ILS ou...