US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 17 for "Systems and methods for microbubble and nanobubble CO 2 and other gas dissolution and sequestration in geological formations" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,855, issued on March 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for microbubble and nanobubble CO 2 and other gas dissolution and sequestration in geological formations" was invented by Zeyad Tareq Ahmed (Chassell, Mich.), Serguey Viktorov Arkadakskiy (Alberta, Canada) and Noushad Kunnummal (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for waste gas sequestration in a geological formation comprises a wellbore within the geological formation, a microbubble/nanobubble generator configured to inject gaseous microbubbles of the waste gas, gaseous nanobubbles of waste gas, or both i...