Patents Assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Company
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Patent number: 11970927Abstract: A packer couples a first tubing and a second tubing while sealing against a wall of a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation. A first hydrocarbon stream is flowed across the packer from the surface through the first tubing to a downhole location. The first hydrocarbon stream has a hydrogen sulfide content that is less than a hydrogen sulfide content of downhole fluids present in the subterranean formation. A second hydrocarbon stream is flowed across the packer from the downhole location through the second tubing to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hussain A. Aborshaid, Hatim S. AlQasim
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Patent number: 11970423Abstract: Cement compositions of the present disclosure include a cement precursor, water, and a cement retarder that includes hydrocarboxylic acid derivatives. In particular, the cement compositions include from 10 wt. % to 70 wt. % cement precursor, from 5 wt. % to 70 wt. % water, and from 0.1 percent by weight of cement (BWOC) to 10 percent BWOC cement retarder comprising the hydrocarboxylic acid derivatives. The hydrocarboxylic acid derivatives provide increased thickening time to the cement compositions at downhole temperatures of greater than or equal to 50° C. The present disclosure further includes methods of cementing a wellbore using the cement compositions with the cement retarder comprising the hydrocarboxylic acid derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Sara Abdulaziz Alkhalaf, Abdullah Al-Yami, Vikrant Wagle, Ali Al Safran
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Patent number: 11970943Abstract: A system includes a casing string, a flow control apparatus, and a stinger. The flow control apparatus includes a tubular body, a float valve, and a disk. The tubular body has a conduit and a first end. The first end is connectable to the casing string. The float valve is fixed within the conduit of the tubular body and is configured to block flow in a first direction and allow flow in the second direction. The disk is fixed above the float valve and within the conduit of the tubular body. The disk is configured to prevent flow in the second direction until the disk is broken by a pre-determined force. The stinger is deployed in the casing string and applies the pre-determined force to the disk to allow a flow of the fluid, in the second direction, from the stinger to the annulus.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventor: Mohammed Ali Alhelal
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Patent number: 11970403Abstract: Methods for synthesizing zeolites in the presence of a pH-modified WS-ODSO composition are provided. A pH-modified WS-ODSO composition is used as a component in zeolite synthesis along with precursors and reagents for synthesizing zeolites. The methods advantageously reduce the amount of utility water required for synthesizing zeolites. In certain embodiments the methods reduce the amounts of added mineralizer reagent typically required for synthesizing zeolites. The methods advantageously reduce the amount of utility water required for synthesizing a material and reduce the DSO waste from a refinery and discharge into the environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Robert P. Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu
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Patent number: 11970936Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring an annulus pressure of a well. The method includes performing periodic surveys to monitor an annulus pressure of the well, determining the annulus pressure of the well over a period of time, comparing the annulus pressure to a Maximum Allowable Wellhead Operating Pressure (MAWOP), and generating a decision on whether the well is a workover candidate based on results of the comparison. The system includes a collecting tool that performs periodic surveys to monitor an annulus pressure of the well, determines the annulus pressure of the well over a period of time, and broadcasts information relating to the periodic surveys. The system further includes a processor that obtains the information relating the periodic surveys, compares the annulus pressure to a Maximum Allowable Wellhead Operating Pressure (MAWOP), and generates a decision on whether the well is a workover candidate based on the results of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdullah M. Al-Dhafeeri, Shebl Fouad Abo Zkry
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Publication number: 20240133258Abstract: A system for navigating a downhole environment includes a tube body with a flexible material that is formed as a thin-walled tube and a pump that pumps pressured fluid through the tube body. The tube body has at least a section that extends along a horizontal section of a downhole environment by the flexible material pushing out under the pressured fluid. A method for navigating a downhole environment includes providing a tube body with a flexible material which is formed as a thin-walled tube, pumping a first pressure through the tube body to extend the tube body by the flexible material pushing out at tip, and controlling the flexible material to extend the tube body along a horizontal section of a downhole environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Eiman Hassan Al Munif, Hattan M. Banjar
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Publication number: 20240132798Abstract: A blend for lubricating a surface includes a lubricant and a polyepoxide co(ter)polymer additive mixed with the lubricant. The polyepoxide co(ter)polymer additive includes a first block having monomer M1 and a second block having monomer M2. The first monomer M1 includes hexene oxide, HO, or octene oxide, OO, and the second monomer M2 includes propylene oxide, PO.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Subram Mani SARATHY, Nikos HADJICHRISTIDIS, Viko LADELTA, Tsu-fang HONG
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Publication number: 20240135316Abstract: A method for providing automated supply chain management at one or more locations involves monitoring the one or more locations in order to calculate one or more supply chain metrics, and determining whether at least one of the supply chain metrics has exceeded an alarm level. The method also includes, in response to determining that at least one of the supply chain metrics has exceeded the alarm level, automatically performing a remedial action at a location that was responsible for the alarm. The one or more supply chain metrics are related to one or more of: emergency purchases, canceled purchases, and aged inventory. Each of the one or more supply chain metrics is assigned an individual weighted supply chain metric score out of 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdullah S. Al-husaiki Al-ghamdi, Saad M. Qahtani, Mubarak H. Hajri, Rami Z. Amri, Majed A. Jameel, Saad A. Qahtani
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Publication number: 20240132794Abstract: Separation methods comprising: separating hydrogen sulfide from natural gas liquids (NGL) in a stripping column. Wherein the following are fluidly connected to the stripping column: a first condensate input line, a second condensate input line, a condensate stripper feed line, a feed drum, an overhead gas product line, a bottoms product NGL line, a slip stream NGL line, a reboiler return line, and an external stripping gas line. And feeding, to the stripping column in a stripping gas feed line fluidly connected to the stripping column, a portion of the slip stream NGL line in combination with the external stripping gas line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Ashiff KHAN, Hatem BAJUAIFER
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Publication number: 20240137371Abstract: In an example, simple mail traffic protocol (SMTP) traffic can be extracted from network traffic of a network. The SMTP traffic can be processed using a bot detector employing a machine learning model trained to determine whether the SMTP traffic contains a malicious SMTP session. Alert data can be provided in response to detecting the malicious SMTP session.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Ammar Abdulateef ALMULHIM, Ghadah Hatem ALSHEHRI
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Publication number: 20240132773Abstract: A diverter agent includes a morpholinium based zwitterionic surfactant having a sulfonate terminal moiety; and an ammonium based zwitterionic surfactant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALSInventors: Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Mohammed Abudullah Bataweel, Nour Othman Baqader, Nisar Ullah, Muhammad Mansha
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Publication number: 20240133279Abstract: A method of controlling a permeability zone in a reservoir includes introducing a diverter agent comprising a morpholinium based zwitterionic surfactant including a sulfonate terminal moiety, an ammonium-based zwitterionic surfactant, and an activator in a wellbore. Once introduced, the diverter agent contacts a high permeability zone in the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALSInventors: Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Mohammed Abudullah Bataweel, Nour Othman Baqader, Nisar Ullah, Muhammad Mansha
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Publication number: 20240133257Abstract: A method for logging in a well is disclosed. The method includes securing a passive logging while levitating (PLWL) assembly to a bottomhole assembly (BHA) to form a logging assembly and running the logging assembly into a wellbore of the well. The method further includes detecting a deviation in the wellbore, detecting a fluid flow direction around the logging assembly in the wellbore, activating the PLWL assembly based, at least in part, on the deviation in the wellbore and the fluid flow direction, and levitating the logging assembly in a center of the wellbore. The method also includes determining whether the logging assembly has reached a target depth and performing logging in the well while the logging assembly is levitating in the center of the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
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Publication number: 20240133270Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems for waste gas sequestration in geological formations and methods for of gas sequestration of waste gas in geological formations. The system can include a wellbore, a casing, inner tubing, a water passage, outer tubing comprising a plurality of diffusion membranes, and a formation conduit comprising reactive rock.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Zeyad Tareq Ahmed, Serguey Viktorov Arkadakskiy, Noushad Kunnummal
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Publication number: 20240132663Abstract: Described is a transparent polymer-based composite and a method for preparing a transparent polymer-based composite. The transparent polymer-based composite includes an activated polycarbonate and one or more nanoparticles grafted to the activated polycarbonate. The activated carbonate is formed via a transcarbonation reaction of a mixture of a carbonic acid species having terminal ester groups and a bisphenol-A with sodium hydroxide and ortho-dichlorobenzene. The transparent polymer-based composite may be used to replace the glass front-sheet of solar panels for photovoltaic applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Haleema Alamri, Maryah Almaghrabi, Aziz Fihri
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Publication number: 20240134082Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for integrating laboratory generated nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and NMR logging data. An example method can include obtaining NMR logging data describing one or more downhole NMR measurements captured during a drilling operation in a borehole; modifying the NMR logging data to be compatible with a temperature correction algorithm, yielding modified NMR logging data, the temperature correction algorithm having been determined based on laboratory generated NMR data; and applying the temperature correction algorithm to the modified NMR logging data, yielding temperature corrected NMR logging data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Songhua CHEN, Wei SHAO, Gabriela SINGER, Shouxiang Mark MA, Gabor HURSAN
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Publication number: 20240132770Abstract: An engineered cementitious composite (ECC) has a tensile strain capacity ranging from 8.6 to 12.5% and includes a cement precursor, unprocessed desert sand, and polymer fibers. The polymer fibers may be ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibers, polypropylene fibers, or a combination thereof. A method of preparing an ECC structure includes providing a cementitious precursor mixture including a cement precursor and unprocessed desert sand, introducing water into the cementitious precursor mixture to form a cement slurry, and adding polymer fibers to the cement slurry. The polymer fibers may be ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibers, polypropylene fibers, or a combination thereof. Then, the method includes forming a structure with the cement slurry and curing the cement slurry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, University of MichiganInventors: Mohammed Al Mehthel, Victor Li, He Zhu, Thibault Villette, Waleed Nasser, Oscar Salazar Vidal
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Publication number: 20240131502Abstract: According to embodiments, a method of producing a catalyst composition may include forming a slurry including an initial zeolite material, a surfactant, silica, and metal precursors, wherein the metal precursors contain a nickel-containing compound and a silver-containing compound, extruding the slurry to produce an extrudate, drying and calcining the extrudate to form a dried and calcined extrudate, hydrothermally treating the dried and calcined extrudate to form a hydrothermally-treated extrudate, and drying and calcining the hydrothermally-treated extrudate to produce the catalyst composition, wherein the catalyst composition includes zeolite, one or more oxides of nickel, and one or more oxides of silver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Munir D. Khokhar, Anne Madden, Sohel K. Shaikh
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Patent number: 11965298Abstract: A system for detecting and locating sand accumulation in an enclosure and for removing the detected and located sand accumulation, having a sand accumulation locator assembly adapted to detect and locate one or more accumulations of sand in the enclosure; a sand removal mechanism adapted to remove the detected one or more accumulations of sand; and a controller communicatively coupled to the sand accumulation locator assembly and the sand removal mechanism, said controller being adapted to: control the sand accumulation locator assembly to detect and locate the one or more accumulations of sand in the enclosure; and control the sand removal mechanism to remove the one or more detected accumulations of sand based on corresponding one or more locations of accumulated sand detected by the sand accumulation locator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Rami A. Al-Ghanim, Abdullah Y. Al-Hassan, Mazin A. Al-Khudhur, Abdulaziz K. Al-Abdullatef, Nawwaf S. Al-Mutiri
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Patent number: 11965133Abstract: A hydrocarbon feed stream may be processed by a method that may include catalytically cracking a hydrocarbon feed stream in a counter-current reactor to produce a first effluent stream, and processing a portion or all of the first effluent stream by at least one or more separations. The at least one or more separations may form at least a second effluent stream including at least 95 wt. % C4-C6 hydrocarbons, and a third effluent stream including at least 95 wt. % of ethane, propane, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the method may further include catalytically cracking a portion or all of the second effluent stream in a second reactor to form a second reactor effluent stream, combining a portion of all of the second reactor effluent stream with the first effluent stream, steam cracking a portion or all of the third effluent stream to form a steam cracked effluent stream, and combining a portion or all of the steam cracked effluent stream with the first effluent.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Khalid Ali Almajnouni, Shatha Ali Alabbad, Abdulelah Alghadeer, Ola Ali, Isidoro Morales Osorio, Abdennour Bourane, Wei Xu, Jorge Gascon Sabate, Jullian Vittenet, Mohammed Alabdullah, Alberto Rodriguez-Gomez, Marcus John Killingworth