ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,686, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Monitoring scale inhibitor treatment" was invented by Qiwei Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tao Chen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hameed H. Al-Badairy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of treatment with scale inhibitor, including adding scale inhibitor to source water to give injection water, conveying the injection water in a surface conduit to an injection well for injection into an oil reservoir in a subterranean formation, pumping the injection water through a wellbore of the injection well into the oil re...