US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 20 for "Surfactant formulation and method for water flood assisted CO 2 sequestration" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,489, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Surfactant formulation and method for water flood assisted CO 2 sequestration" was invented by Pramod Dhanaji Patil (Sugar Land, Texas), Shiv S. Sangaru (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Subhash C. Ayirala (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali A. Yousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz S. Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Zuhair A. Al-Yousef (Saihat, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad M. Almajid (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sequestering CO2 in a subterranean formation and a method for sequestering CO2 in a subterranean formation during a...