ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,161, issued on March 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Gel formation from reaction heating" was invented by Hamoud Alqahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Zuhair Ali AlYousif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Subhash Chandrabose Ayirala (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Majid Almajid (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Abdullah Al-Taq (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sealing a high permeability region in a reservoir is provided. The method includes injecting a gel precursor solution into a high permeability region in a reservoir, injecting a sodium nitrite solution proximate to the high ...