US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 25 for "Consolidation of carbonate-based formation rocks with ground calcium carbonate" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,518, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Consolidation of carbonate-based formation rocks with ground calcium carbonate" was invented by Abeer Ateeq Alarawi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Nora Khalid Alsudairi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for consolidating a carbonate-based formation includes a zinc metalloenzyme and calcium carbonate. A method for consolidating a carbonate-based formation to mechanically enhance the formation, includes injecting a fracture within the formation with the composition."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under Ap...