US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 31 for "Zero liquid discharge water management system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,017, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Zero liquid discharge water management system" was invented by Subhash Ayirala (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salah H. Alsaleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali A. Al-Yousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including a pretreatment component for pretreating a produced water obtained from a subterranean formation operation to remove at least a portion of dispersed hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulfide therein, thereby producing a high salinity produced water; a desalination component for desalinating of the high s...