US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 3 for "Converting stranded natural gas to carbon particles" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,664, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Converting stranded natural gas to carbon particles" was invented by Guodong Zhan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bodong Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulwahab S. Aljohar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for converting natural gas to carbon particles are provided. An exemplary method includes feeding the natural gas to a CNT reactor, forming an effluent stream including the carbon particles, separating the carbon particles from the effluent stream, forming a produced gas stream, combusting the produced gas stream...