US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 17 for "Integrated hydrocracking and carbon dioxide hydrogenation to produce oxygenated and hydrocarbon fuels" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,253, issued on June 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Integrated hydrocracking and carbon dioxide hydrogenation to produce oxygenated and hydrocarbon fuels" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for producing methanol and hydrocarbon products comprises: generating hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide in a hydrogen production unit; hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feedstock stream using the hydrogen gas, thereby producing hydrocarbon products and waste hydrogen gas; and contacting...