US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Jan. 27 for "Carbon dioxide mineralization and storage" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,979, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Carbon dioxide mineralization and storage" was invented by Rima Taqi Alfaraj (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Murtadha J. Altammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abeer Ateeq Alarawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carbon dioxide may be stored in a subterranean formation. Methods of subterranean carbon dioxide storage may include: introducing, through an injection region of a unified wellbore to a subterranean formation, a carbonated aqueous fluid including carbon dioxide dispersed within an aqueous fluid, wherein the subterranean fo...