US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 17 for "Hydrogen production from iron-rich formations" (Saudi Arabia, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,865, issued on March 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrogen production from iron-rich formations" was invented by Simon A. Stewart (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Serguey Viktorov Arkadakskiy (Alberta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for passively producing hydrogen from a geological formation includes drilling a plurality of lateral wellbores into an iron-rich geological formation from a mother wellbore extending from a surface location. Each of the plurality of lateral wellbores has an inclination along its length of less than 90 degrees. A biocide configured to inactivate hydrogen-...