US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 13 for "Methods of stimulating geological formations with acidic fracturing fluids" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,730, issued on May 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods of stimulating geological formations with acidic fracturing fluids" was invented by Serguey Viktorov Arkadakskiy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Zeyad Tareq Ahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Noushad Kunnummal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of stimulating a geological formation and sequestering CO2 in the geological formation may include positioning an acidic fracturing fluid comprising dissolved CO2 and CO2 microbubbles and/or CO2 nanobubbles in the geological formation, hydraulic fracturing the geological formation...