US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 21 for "Low salinity water production in crude oil processing" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,575, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Low salinity water production in crude oil processing" was invented by Maher Maqbool Shariff (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sebastien A. Duval (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Simone Less (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Olanrewaju Malcolm Oshinowo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side-stream is separated from an oil phase stream that is discharged from a crude oil separator in a gas-oil separation plant. The side-stream contains water and oil. At least a portion of the oil phase stream that is discharged from the crude oil separator in the ga...