US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 19 for "Gaseous hydrocarbons formation heating device" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,098, issued on May 19, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Gaseous hydrocarbons formation heating device" was invented by Saad Al Afnan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Murtada Al Jawad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Guenther Glatz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Sultan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhanced gaseous hydrocarbons recovery is provided. The method includes placing at least two individual, independently-controllable heating elements aligned opposite one another and in the same location on a production tubing in a wellbore at a gaseous hydrocar...