ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,623, issued on April 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating power from recycled hydrocarbon gas" was invented by Mohammed A. Bataweel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Eyad Alali (Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), Mustafa Alkhowaildi (Safwa, Saudi Arabia), Nour Baqader (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Norah Aljuryyed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating electric power for well site operations include processing a hydrocarbon fluid produced from a subterranean formation, through a wellbore, and to a terranean surface into at least one acid gas; processing the at least one acid g...