US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 20 for "Method of processing crude oil and a refined feedstock including vacuum residue, fuel oil, or both" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,896, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of processing crude oil and a refined feedstock including vacuum residue, fuel oil, or both" was invented by Alberto Lozano Ballesteros (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdennour Bourane (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Gonzalo Feijoo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ibrahim Abba (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a crude oil feedstock and a refined feedstock comprising vacuum residue and/or fuel oil, the method may comprise: cracking the crude oil feedstock in a downflow reaction zone of a fluid catalytic cracking unit...