ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,339, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Carbon dioxide mineralization and storage" was invented by Murtadha J. Altammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rima Taqi Alfaraj (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abeer Ateeq Alarawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of subterranean carbon dioxide storage may include: introducing, through an injection wellbore to a subterranean formation includes a basaltic formation, a carbonated aqueous fluid; reacting the carbon dioxide or an ion thereof with the basaltic formation to form mineralized carbon and a produced aqueous fluid; flo...