Patents by Inventor Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam
Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11970659Abstract: Methods for treating a formation may include introducing components of a treatment solution into a wellbore such that the treatment solution contacts the formation to be treated, where the treatment solution may include urea, urease, a calcium ion source, one or more polysaccharides, a casein protein, a protease, an ionic compound, and a sugar, where the formation may have an amount of sand production before treatment and may be in fluid contact with the wellbore, and where an amount of sand production after treatment may be less than the amount of sand production before treatment. Consolidated sand structure compositions may include previously unconsolidated sand interlinked by inter-particle cementitious bonds comprising deposited calcium carbonate crystals, where the consolidated sand has a structural strength and the consolidated sand structure is porous to permit fluid flow through the composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Manar A. Alahmari, Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Mohammed A. Bataweel
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Publication number: 20230287773Abstract: Methods of enhancing water injectivity into a subterranean wellbore may include injecting a first composition comprising nitrate anions having a nitrate concentration into a target zone of the subterranean wellbore; injecting a second composition comprising nitrate anions into the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, where the second composition has a nitrate concentration of from about 20% to about 70% the nitrate concentration of the first composition; optionally injecting a third composition comprising nitrate anions into the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, where the third composition has a nitrate concentration of from about 20% to about 70% the nitrate concentration of the second composition; and injecting water, where the water injection pressure is reduced by about 5% to 25% compared to the water injection pressure in an untreated subterranean wellbore, where the nitrate anions are reduced by bacteria present in the subterranean wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Ayman R. Al-Nakhli
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Patent number: 11739011Abstract: A biocide testing system includes test columns, a bypass tube, control valves, and a control system. Each test column includes biocide test coupons. The bypass tube is fluidly coupled to each of the test columns. Each control valve is coupled between a respective test column and the bypass tube. The control system performs operations including: controlling the control valves to fluidly couple the test columns to a water source; controlling a pump to circulate water from the water source into the test columns to immerse each test coupon in water; controlling the control valves to fluidly isolate the test columns from the water source and to fluidly isolate each test column from the other test columns; controlling a particular control valve to fluidly couple a particular test column to a biocide source; and controlling the pump to circulate biocide from the biocide source into the particular test column to immerse the test coupons in the particular test column in biocide.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Othman A. Olayan
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Patent number: 11732560Abstract: Methods of enhancing water injectivity into a subterranean wellbore may include injecting a first composition comprising nitrate anions having a nitrate concentration into a target zone of the subterranean wellbore; injecting a second composition comprising nitrate anions into the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, where the second composition has a nitrate concentration of from about 20% to about 70% the nitrate concentration of the first composition; optionally injecting a third composition comprising nitrate anions into the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, where the third composition has a nitrate concentration of from about 20% to about 70% the nitrate concentration of the second composition; and injecting water, where the water injection pressure is reduced by about 5% to 25% compared to the water injection pressure in an untreated subterranean wellbore, where the nitrate anions are reduced by bacteria present in the subterranean wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Ayman R. Al-Nakhli
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Publication number: 20230184109Abstract: A method for monitoring microbial levels in a wellbore fluid is provided. The method includes collecting a wellbore fluid sample, recovering ATP from the wellbore fluid sample, using the recovered ATP in an ATP-mediated oxidation of luciferin to oxyluciferin to yield photons, quantifying the photons, correlating the quantified photons to an ATP concentration, comparing the ATP concentration to predetermined action levels, and taking countermeasures when the ATP concentration exceeds the predetermined action levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Abdalla Moustafa Ezzat, Abdulaziz A. Ba Hamdan
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Publication number: 20230096777Abstract: Methods for treating a formation may include introducing components of a treatment solution into a wellbore such that the treatment solution contacts the formation to be treated, where the treatment solution may include urea, urease, a calcium ion source, one or more polysaccharides, a casein protein, a protease, an ionic compound, and a sugar, where the formation may have an amount of sand production before treatment and may be in fluid contact with the wellbore, and where an amount of sand production after treatment may be less than the amount of sand production before treatment. Consolidated sand structure compositions may include previously unconsolidated sand interlinked by inter-particle cementitious bonds comprising deposited calcium carbonate crystals, where the consolidated sand has a structural strength and the consolidated sand structure is porous to permit fluid flow through the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Manar M. Alahmari, Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Mohammed A. Bataweel
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Patent number: 11535791Abstract: Methods for treating a formation may include introducing components of a treatment solution into a wellbore such that the treatment solution contacts the formation to be treated, where the treatment solution may include urea, urease, a calcium ion source, one or more polysaccharides, a casein protein, a protease, an ionic compound, and a sugar, where the formation may have an amount of sand production before treatment and may be in fluid contact with the wellbore, and where an amount of sand production after treatment may be less than the amount of sand production before treatment. Consolidated sand structure compositions may include previously unconsolidated sand interlinked by inter-particle cementitious bonds comprising deposited calcium carbonate crystals, where the consolidated sand has a structural strength and the consolidated sand structure is porous to permit fluid flow through the composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Manar A. AlAhmari, Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Mohammed A. Bataweel
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Publication number: 20220348982Abstract: A method for using genomic data to locate a reservoir is provided. The method includes collecting samples in a field over a reservoir. A genomic analysis is performed on the samples to obtain genomic data. The genomic data is clustered to classify sequences of microbial communities associated with using hydrocarbons for energy. The genomic data is used in an artificial intelligence model to identify a drilling site for hydrocarbon production.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Mahdi A. AbuAli, Manar M. AlAhmari, Mohammed A. Bataweel
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Publication number: 20220290035Abstract: Methods for treating a formation may include introducing components of a treatment solution into a wellbore such that the treatment solution contacts the formation to be treated, where the treatment solution may include urea, urease, a calcium ion source, one or more polysaccharides, a casein protein, a protease, an ionic compound, and a sugar, where the formation may have an amount of sand production before treatment and may be in fluid contact with the wellbore, and where an amount of sand production after treatment may be less than the amount of sand production before treatment. Consolidated sand structure compositions may include previously unconsolidated sand interlinked by inter-particle cementitious bonds comprising deposited calcium carbonate crystals, where the consolidated sand has a structural strength and the consolidated sand structure is porous to permit fluid flow through the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Manar A. AlAhmari, Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Mohammed A. Bataweel
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Publication number: 20220009805Abstract: A biocide testing system includes test columns, a bypass tube, control valves, and a control system. Each test column includes biocide test coupons. The bypass tube is fluidly coupled to each of the test columns. Each control valve is coupled between a respective test column and the bypass tube. The control system performs operations including: controlling the control valves to fluidly couple the test columns to a water source; controlling a pump to circulate water from the water source into the test columns to immerse each test coupon in water; controlling the control valves to fluidly isolate the test columns from the water source and to fluidly isolate each test column from the other test columns; controlling a particular control valve to fluidly couple a particular test column to a biocide source; and controlling the pump to circulate biocide from the biocide source into the particular test column to immerse the test coupons in the particular test column in biocide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Othman A. Olayan
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Patent number: 11035009Abstract: The present invention relates to low-density biochips and methods for rapid detection of bacterial organisms involved in microbially influenced corrosion (MIC).Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Vitaly Zinkevich, Nelly Sapojnikova, Tamar Kartvelishvili, Nino Asatiani
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Publication number: 20180346955Abstract: According to the present invention a method of determining a concentration of sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) comprising is provided. The method comprises preparing a standard growth medium in a group of test vials, adding ferrous chloride tetrahydrate (FCTH) to the each of the test vials, adding a sample portion to a first of the group of test vials, sequentially diluting the sample portion by injecting succeeding vials in the test group with fluid from sequentially previous vials and incubating the group of test vials, wherein blackening of fluid in an incubated test vial indicates a presence of a threshold number of SRB.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Ghassan A. Al-Humaid
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Publication number: 20180298429Abstract: The present invention relates to low-density biochips and methods for rapid detection of bacterial organisms involved in microbially influenced corrosion (MIC).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Abdulmohsen A. Al-Humam, Vitaly Zinkevich, Nelly Sapojnikova, Tamar Kartvelishvili, Nino Asatiani