US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 25 for "Compositions and methods for utilizing ground calcium carbonate for consolidating carbonate rock formation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,035, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Compositions and methods for utilizing ground calcium carbonate for consolidating carbonate rock formation" was invented by Abeer Ateeq Alarawi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Jasim Rubeh (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for consolidating a carbonate rock formation includes ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and a solvent. A method of consolidating a carbonate rock formation includes providing a consolidant composition comprising ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and a solven...