ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,727, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Enhanced CO2 fracking operation" was invented by Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Yuguo Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stimulating hydrogen production from an injection formation. This method includes the steps of providing a well traversing a subsurface into an injection formation containing hydrocarbons. Carbon dioxide, water, steam, and combustion gas are introduced into the injection formation via the well. Further, the injection formation is stimulated using one or more of infrasonic...