US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 20 for "Clathrates for subsurface stimulation and sequestration" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,880, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Clathrates for subsurface stimulation and sequestration" was invented by Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Rima Taqi Alfaraj (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method placing carbon dioxide in a subterranean zone includes disposing into a wellbore drilled into a subterranean zone a mixture comprising guanidinium-based clathrate particles, and flowing the mixture downhole through the wellbore and thence into the subterranean zone, thereby placing in the subterranean zone carbon dioxide released from decompositio...