Enoc granted first US petroleum process patent

Dubai: Enoc announced Sunday that it was granted a United States Patent No. 7,691,258 for preserving the quality of jet fuel during transit.

The patent is also the first-ever for Enoc. As a new process in petroleum processing, Enoc's approach ensures that the quality of "merox treated" jet fuel is not allowed to deteriorate while it is transferred from one tank to another until it reaches the aircraft's fuel tanks.

Transferring of "meroxed" jet fuel from refinery to terminals through tank transfers has been a cause of quality concerns in the supply chain logistics of the petroleum industry.

Four years to develop

The new process, which took more than four years to develop, included installing special clean up filters at the EIL Terminal at Jebel Ali which helped maintain fuel quality when it was moved from the refinery to Dubai airport.

Tayyeb Al Mulla, Chief Executive, International Refining and Marketing, Enoc, said: " Our first patent represents a major advance and is a contribution of Enoc to the industry.