US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 9 for "Process scheme for maximum heavy oil conversion with stage asphaltene rejection" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,372, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process scheme for maximum heavy oil conversion with stage asphaltene rejection" was invented by Vinod Ramaseshan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Emad Al Subaie (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hector Infante (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Jesse Williams (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rustam Ismagilov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdalaziz A. Al-Balawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ashok Kumar Choudhary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system to upgrade an input stream of a straight run vacuum residue or a cracked feedstock that includes a ...