US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 23 for "Optimizing purge gas flows through a flare gas network" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,139, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Optimizing purge gas flows through a flare gas network" was invented by Anas H. Safar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yousef D. Aloufi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullmajeed I. Al Sanad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Almubayedh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ayman A. Alabdullatif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of processing a flare gas include operating a flare gas piping network to output a flare from a plurality of flows of a purge gas in purge gas headers coupled to a main header; and during operation of the flare...