This paper focuses on the features and genesis of Orinoco heavy oil in the East Venezuela Basin based on geochemical data and geologic evolution of this heavy oil belt. In accordance with crude oil composition and properties, heavy oil in the north…
An oil and gas field requires careful operational planning and management via production optimization for increased recovery and long-term project profitability. This article addresses the challenge of production optimization in a field undergoing…
We present a solid-phase extraction method followed by derivatization with a charged tag to characterize ketone/aldehyde-containing functionalities (proposed photo-oxidation transformation products) in weathered petroleum by Fourier transform ion…
With the popularity of the deep learning model in the engineering fields, it has attracted significant research interests in the economic and finance fields. In this paper, we use the deep learning model to capture the unknown complex nonlinear…
The aim of present study is to develop a mathematical model to predict water and salt separation efficiencies in an industrial two stages crude oil desalting process. The considered process consists of mixing valve and electrostatic drums connected…
High-viscosity oil belong to unconventional sources of hydrocarbon raw materials, the share of which is growing every year. The development of this complex type of raw material requires modern scientific technologies in order to maintain the…
The temperature drop of waxy crude oil after a shutdown is the basic premise for restarting relative mechanical calculation. However, computational accuracy has been paid much more attention excessively in the relevant techniques proposed in the…
The emphasis of this paper is to show the existence of some non-energy benefits that can be taken into account in an energy efficiency investment aimed to reduce energy consumption and increase production and product quality in an oil and gas…
Oil-dispersed -Fe2O3 nanocatalysts were prepared by coating -Fe2O3 nanoparticles with oleic acid (OA). Mossbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and field emission scanning electron microscopy were used to characterize -Fe2O3 and -Fe2O3@OA. Their…
Determining the physicochemical properties of petroleum is important for rapid decision-making during the production process. True boiling point (TBP) curve is the most important parameter in the petroleum characterization. However, the TBP can be…
Settling tanks have been widely applied to water and sand separation from crude oil. At present, the related studies on the effect of water and sand separation in settling tanks mainly focus on computational simulation methods. This paper puts…
Economic development of marginal oil fields usually requires utilization of nearby existing processing facilities to minimize Capital and Operational Expenses. However, tie-back of multi-phase well fluid to other existing processing facilities has…
The Fula Sub-basin, located in the northeast Muglad Basin, has an area of 5000 km2. The FN oilfield is the biggest oilfield discovered in this sub-basin with 100 million tons of oil reserves. Its main hydrocarbon reservoirs included the Aradeiba,…
Abstract: The effect from the combined action of a low-frequency acoustic field, a demulsifier (DE), and the temperature factor on the stability of the water-in-oil emulsions formed by crude oils differing in the contents of resins, asphaltenes, and…
Because of destructive effects of organic chlorides, elimination of these compounds from contaminated crude oil and its distillates is very crucial for oil refiners. Despite the importance of the subject, limited researches in this field are…
Fouling is an acute problem in crude oil preheat train heat exchangers as it affects the thermal and hydraulic performance of individual units as well as the network. Ageing of fouling deposits complicates these interactions and effective tools for…
A thermal processing of waste tires in the presence of a natural zeolite catalyst from the "Tayzhuzgen" field (Eastern Kazakhstan) is detailed. The hydrogen sources utilized were heavy residues from oil refinement. The elemental and phase composition…
The importance of the Carmopolis field in Brazil for the exploration of onshore crude oil dates back to 1963. Currently still in operation, this is a major field, serving as a model for enhanced oil recovery tests. In this field, the differences in…
Crude oil dehydration is one of the first, most important and challenging steps in oil production and processing. To achieve rapid and energy-optimized demulsification of water-in-oil emulsions, Saudi Aramco and TechnipFMC have jointly developed a…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industryhas started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Amongsuch opportunities might be small oil…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industry has started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Among such opportunities might be small oil…
The aim of this study is to investigate the detailed soot formation characteristics of crude Jatropha oil (CJO) and heavy fuel oil (HFO) blends (lower heating value (LHV) basis: 50%/50%) in a 550 kW-class combustion test furnace equipped with an…
Field-scale reservoir simulation of In-Situ Combustion (ISC) process has been a grey area worldwide, due to the complexities of reactions involved and availability of kinetic model that can cover every aspects of an ISC process properly i.e.…
The formation volume factor and gas-oil ratio of crude oil obtained from PVT testing are essential and important data for reserve estimation and reservoir development design, which can directly affect the accuracy of the oil reserve and oil…
Due to the negative environmental impacts of fossil fuels and the increasing global energy demands, biofuels are receiving increasing attention as the best short-term substitute for petroleum. Recently, thermochemical conversion of seaweeds is in…
A heavy oil sample from Dagang Oilfield was used to study the EOR mechanisms of CO2 huff and puff process using a PVT device and a sand-pack displacement set-up. The properties and interactions of the CO2-crude oil system were measured under high…
Friction and wear behavior of nitrile butadiene rubber in crude oil with sand was investigated by the reciprocating wear tester, while the movement of sand grains of different shapes during the wear process was also studied. Morphology and chemical…
The main aim of the present study is to develop a detail mathematical model to investigate the performance of an industrial electrostatic desalting process. The dehydration process consists of a mixing valve and an electrostatic coalescer drum. The…
Minimum miscibility pressures (MMPs) were measured at reservoir temperatures using a capillary-rise vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) technique for four crude oils collected from different formations in the deep/hot Bakken Petroleum System and the…
The demand for crude oil is continuously increasing every year, and the discovery of new oil reservoirs is declining. Crude oil recovery from the mature and developed fields is somewhere between 20 and 40% of the original oil in place. Therefore, it…
Miscible CO2 injection process has become widely used technique for the enhanced oil recovery in low permeability reservoirs. Core flooding experiments and field test of CO2 miscible flooding in low permeability sandstone reservoirs and its influence…
This study investigated the effect of average carbon number and molecular/bonding characteristics of wax on wax appearance temperature (WAT) and wax crystal shape under microscope. Three samples of SAR, AS, and FAH from oil fields in southwestern…
Crude oil palm biomass (OPB) residue is an important source of lignocellulose and could be transformed into biofuels through thermochemical conversion for heat and power in CHP plants or act as sustainable reinforcement in the biocomposite industry.…
Water-in-oil emulsions constitute a widespread issue for the oilfield industry. Indeed, the phases of water-in-oil emulsions must be separated as soon as possible in the production chain. These emulsions can be fairly stable due to certain intrinsic…
To efficiently remove Ni from crude oils and also without corrosion occurring in the process, polymer brush with core-shell structure (PAA@SiO2) was synthesized by radical polymerization, in which micro-sized SiO2 as the core and polyacrylic acid as…
Water flooding timing is the research focus in the process of reservoir development, especially for offshore reservoir, reasonable water flooding timing can ensure better development effect, at the same time, it can save the investment cost in the…
In article authors have investigated a question of a possibility of application of hydrodynamic cavitation processing of crude oil for the purpose of decrease in content of sulphurous compounds. The electromechanical converter with a secondary…
On Petrocedeno field has been developed a Polymer Flood Pilot with the purpose of evaluating the applicability of this technology in extra-heavy oil reservoirs and considering its uses on the rest of the field. For the integrity of this project it is…
Implementation of nanotechnology in oil and gas industries, particularly for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has recently gained interest. In this work, graphene oxide (GO) has been synthesized and used as nano-demulsifier for crude oil in water (O/W)…
Engineered nanofluids were designed to reduce oil viscosity and to restore wettability in heavy oil formations (Zabala et al. 2016). Incremental production rates, between 50% and 150%, were registered after injecting the nanofluids in 4 wells in two…
This paper presents the design of a polymer flood pilot in a very heterogeneous, sour Heavy Oil reservoir (referred to as HO Reservoir in this paper), which has three times the salinty of sea water with a high mineral content. In addition, the paper…
Quifa is one of the largest heavy-oil fields in Colombia with a total fluids production of 1,320 KBPD with a water cut of 96.7% through 272 active wells, approximatively. Facilities to handle such amounts of water, have to deliver crude oil under…
A bacterial consortium, constructed from the oil contaminated soil, mainly consisting of Pseudomonas sp., together with fertilizing, rice husk application, and plowing, was used for the field in situ bioremediation of oil contaminated site in…
In crude oil refineries, fouling in heat exchangers and heat exchanger networks represents one the most complex and challenging issues. Its occurrence produces major impacts in thermal, hydraulic and economic performance on every heat transfer…
The current study aims to investigate the effect of Fe3O4-Basorol P DB-9935 (M-DB) as nanodemulsifier on operating temperature and dewatering efficiency of light, medium, and heavy crude oil. The optimum temperature for dewatering process of…
The interpretation of geophysical survey results to answer hydrologic, engineering, and geologic questions is critical to diverse problems for management of water, energy, and mineral resources. Although geophysical images provide valuable…
The asphaltene aggregates are made of a well-packed and stable in benzene (toluene) solution core and a loose-packed periphery, which can respectively occlude and adsorb the other oil fractions. Previously (Liao et al. Energy Fuels 2005, 180), it was…
Due to the presence of asphaltene, the flow assurance of high viscosity crude oil becomes more challenging and costly to produce in wellbores and pipelines. One of the most effective ways to reduce viscosity is to blend heavy oil with light oil.…
The main objective of this study is to develop nanotechnology-based materials, specifically carbon quantum dots (CQDs), as alternative nonpolluting, nontoxic, and easily manipulated tracers for the oil industry using an easy and rapid synthesis from…