US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Method of sulfate removal from seawater using high salinity produced water" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,142, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of sulfate removal from seawater using high salinity produced water" was invented by Fahd Ibrahim Alghunaimi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tao Chen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Abudullah Bataweel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hind Saleh Aldossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of desulfating seawater includes adding a produced water to a sulfated seawater, forming a first precipitate, separating the first precipitate from the sulfated seawater, measuring the sulfate ion concentration of the desulfated sea...