...Ali Alarbah; Ezeddin Shirif; Na Jia; Hamdi Bumraiwha The employing of a self-synthesized organobimetallic catalyst as a viscosity reducing agent to upgrade the heavy oil as well as the mechanisms of enhancing heavy oil recovery are investigated in this study. The components in treated and untreated...

...Osaze Omoregbe; Abarasi Hart Bitumen and heavy oil are energy resources with high viscosities, high densities, and high metals and heteroatoms content. This paper reports a bibliometric survey to investigate the historic trends and the future pattern of heavy oil and bitumen recovery and upgrading...

...Vu Le; Son Tran The typical challenge encountered in developing heavy-oil reservoirs is inefficient wellbore lifting caused by complex multiphase flows. The literature on modeling of a hybrid artificial-lift (AL) system is relatively sparse and these works typically model the AL system on the basis...

...Dong Liu; Yonghui Liu; Nanjun Lai; Youjun Ji; Tinghui Hu The inflection point temperature of rheology (IPTR) of heavy oil transforming from a non-Newtonian fluid into a Newtonian fluid is a key parameter in the steam huff- and-puff process. It is particularly relevant in terms of optimizing...

...Ali Alarbah; Ezeddin Shirif; Na Jia; Hamdi Bumraiwha Chemical-assisted enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has recently received a great deal of attention as a means of improving the efficiency of oil recovery processes. Producing heavy oil is technically difficult due to its high viscosity and high...

...Yu Shi; Yanan Ding; Qianghan Feng; Daoyong Yang In this study, a systematical technique has been developed to experimentally and numerically evaluate the displacement efficiency in heavy oil reservoirs with enzyme under different conditions. First, dynamic interfacial tensions (IFTs) between enzyme...

...Zehua Chen; Daoyong Yang This study investigates the potential of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to accurately predict viscosities of heavy oils (HOs) as well as mixtures of solvents and heavy oils (S–HOs). The study uses experimental data collected from the public domain for HO viscosities...

...Xinqian Lu; Zeyu Lin; Xiang Zhou; Fanhua Zeng Heavy oil resources, as a non-renewable energy resource, often require extra enhanced oil recovery techniques such as solvent-based processes. Many kinds of solvents including pure and mixed solvents have been tested in solvent-based applications...

... of ASME for publication in the J ournal of E nergy R esources T echnology . 17 03 2020 14 04 2020 16 04 2020 12 06 2020 heavy oil enhanced oil recovery in situ combustion carbon dioxide numerical simulation fuel combustion petroleum engineering It is known...

...Kai Wang; Ke Li; Wensheng Zhou; Guojin Zhu; Yue Pan; Hongjun Fan; Yufei Gao; Jing Tang; Lei Xu; Qing You In order to solve the problem of the unclear understanding of the water cone behavior and its influencing factors of horizontal well in a heavy oil reservoir with bottom water, in this paper...

... production data and pressure distribution along the sand-pack in heavy oil/methane system. Two different simulation models are used: (1) equilibrium black oil model with two sets of gas/oil relative permeability curves; (2) a four-component nonequilibrium kinetic model. Good matching results on production...

...Li Zhang; Zhen Pan; Zhien Zhang; Liyan Shang; Jiangbo Wen; Shujun Chen A thermodynamic and economic comparative analysis are presented for waste heat recovery (WHR) from the heavy oil production with steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process employing organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and Kalina...

.... , and Lo , H. , 1981 , “ Theoretical Studies on the Gravity Drainage of Heavy Oil During in‐Situ Steam Heating ,” Can. J. Chem. Eng. , 59 ( 4 ), pp. 455 – 460 . 10.1002/cjce.5450590407 [2] Birrel , G. E. , and Putnam , P. E. , 2000 , “ A Study of the Influence of Reservoir Architecture...

... resource Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Petroleum engineering Petroleum transport Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Pipelines Multiphase flow Gas reservoirs Natural gas hydrates are crystalline compounds that are formed by water and natural gas. The gas...

...Zhanxi Pang; Peng Qi; Fengyi Zhang; Taotao Ge; Huiqing Liu Heavy oil is an important hydrocarbon resource that plays a great role in petroleum supply for the world. Co-injection of steam and flue gas can be used to develop deep heavy oil reservoirs. In this paper, a series of gas dissolution...

... storage Heat energy transfer Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Fossil fuel Combustion Energy sources Environmental effects Spontaneous combustion of coal often occurs in the process of coal mining, transportation, and storage [ 1 ]. It is an inherent problem for coal mines...

... . Manuscript received May 24, 2017; final manuscript received January 9, 2018; published online February 27, 2018. Editor: Hameed Metghalchi. 24 05 2017 09 01 2018 Hydrates Petroleum engineering Petroleum transport Petroleum wells-drilling Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight...

... 2017 19 11 2017 Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Mature gas wells are usually faced with production challenges associated with liquid loading when gas reservoir depletes and gas flow tends not to lift liquid through...

...; final manuscript received September 17, 2017; published online October 17, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Daoyong (Tony) Yang. 08 10 2016 17 09 2017 Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Simulations to predict and evaluate...

... March 16, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Deepak Devegowda. 01 02 2016 12 02 2017 Hydrates Oil reservoirs Petroleum engineering Unconventional petroleum Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Gas reservoirs Natural gas is one of the main sources of energy and feedstock...