US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus for thermal activation of blow-out preventers of oil and gas wells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,038, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Apparatus for thermal activation of blow-out preventers of oil and gas wells" was invented by Naser Otaibi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Hasan Alkhunizi (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Alshaarawi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Aqeel Alshakhouri (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for containing well pressure including a well, a well casing, a blowout preventer (BOP), and a fuel container fluidly connected to the BOP that contains a fuel composition. The fuel composition auto ignites at a temperature between 150deg F. and 1100deg F....