Heavy crude oils from geology to upgrading : an overview

• Main Author: Huc, A. Y.
• Corporate Author: Institut français du pétrole
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Editions Technip, 2011.
• Subjects: Petroleum engineering > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Petroleum > Prospecting.; Offshore oil industry.; Oil industries.; Oil sands industry.; Petroleum > Refining.; Oil-shale industry.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781621987673; 9782710808909
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xxxiv, 442 p.) : ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents:

• Heavy crude oils in the perspective of world oil demand / N. Alazard-Toux
• Definitions and specificities / A. Saniere
• Geological origin of heavy crude oils / A.Y. Huc
• Properties and composition / I. Merdrignac, D. Espinat, I. Hénaut, J-F. Argillier
• Reservoir geology / R. Eschard
• Oil sands: mining and processing / E. Delamaide
• Cold production / G. Renard, J.F. Nauroy, E. Bemer
• Enhanced recovery / G. Renard
• Heavy oil production: pumping systems / C. Wittrisch
• Examples of large heavy oil projects / E. Delamaide, A. Kamp, G. Renard, T. Rouaud, R. Kasprik
• Heavy oil dilution / P. Gateau, I. Hénaut, J-F. Argillier
• Aqueous emulsions / J-F. Argillier, I. Hénaut, D. Langevin
• Core annular flow / Y. Peysson
• Surface pumps for transport: selection and limitations / J. Falcimaigne
• De-asphalting with heavy paraffinic solvents / A. Quignard
• Visbreaking / A. Quignard, S. Kressmann
• Coking / A. Quignard, S. Kressmann
• Catalytic hydrotreatment and hydroconversion: fixed bed, moving bed, ebullated bed and entrained bed / J. Verstraete, D. Guillaume, M.Roy Auberger
• Reservoir and production / E. Delamaide, J.F. Nauroy, G. Renard, C. Dalmazzone, C. Noïk
• Upgrading / A. Quignard
• Greenhouse gas emissions / G. Renard, A. Saniere, E. Delamaide
• CO₂ mass balance: an integrated approach / J.B. Sigaud
• In Situ upgrading of heavy oil and bitumen / J.P. Héraud, A. Kamp, J.F. Argillier
• Process workflows / J.P. Héraud.