US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 10 for "Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker and steam enhanced catalytic cracker" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,834, issued on June 10, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker and steam enhanced catalytic cracker" was invented by Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Zhonglin Zhang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream to form at least a deasphalted oil stream and heavy residual hydrocarbons, delayed coking the heavy residua...