US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 28 for "Sweetening of sour gas wells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,768, issued on July 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Sweetening of sour gas wells" was invented by Syed Qayamuddin Shah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain A. Aborshaid (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system includes a production tubing disposed in a wellbore from a terranean surface into a subterranean zone to a first depth in the wellbore. The subterranean zone includes a formation fluid that includes a hydrocarbon fluid having a first concentration of an acid gas, and the first concentration is greater than a threshold concentration of acid gas. The well system also...