ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,827, issued on Oct. 20.
"Prospecting hydrocarbons via monocyclic aromatic compounds" was invented by Mohammed E. Abu Alreesh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ibrahim Z. Atwah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to prospecting hydrocarbon accumulations based on the collective concentration of monocyclic aromatic compounds in water samples collected from geological formations. One or more embodiments are related to a method that includes screening one or more geological formation water samples for contamination by comparing an internal distribution of monocyclic aromatic compounds of the o...