US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 31 for "Methods for photocatalytic water splitting of produced waters" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,993, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for photocatalytic water splitting of produced waters" was invented by Hassan Sakar Alqahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fahd Ibrahim Alghunaimi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Yahya Hazazi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Salah Hamad Al-Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for photocatalytic water splitting of produced waters may comprise introducing a photocatalyst comprising a semiconductor to a produced water comprising ions of sodium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfate, barium, iron, lithium,...