US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 16 for "Method for downhole sequestration of carbon dioxide in the form of gas hydrate" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,221, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for downhole sequestration of carbon dioxide in the form of gas hydrate" was invented by Pramod Dhanaji Patil (Sugar Land, Texas), Abdulaziz Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Almajid (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Zuhair A. Al-Yousef (Saihat, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for downhole sequestration of carbon dioxide. A heating assembly is lowered into a wellbore within a geological formation. Carbon dioxide is injected into the wellbore and heated to a predetermined temperature using the heating ass...