US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 7 for "Methods for acidizing subsurface formations utilizing corrosion inhibitor compounds" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,405, issued on April 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for acidizing subsurface formations utilizing corrosion inhibitor compounds" was invented by Abdullah S. Alenezi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Reem A. Alalwan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Imran Ul-haq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Nayef M. Alanazi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Rashed Mohammad Aleisa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsurface formation may be acidized by a method that may comprise injecting an acidic treatment fluid into an subsurface formation through a tubing of an extraction well, thereby exposing at leas...