Petroleum Technology

This monograph covers three broad topics of Mietek''s outstanding career, Heavy Fraction and Asphaltene Characterization, The Boduszynski Continuum...

Heavy oil is a crude oil of typically less than 20 DegreesAPI gravity and higher than 200 cp (centipoise) viscosity at reservoir conditions. It is ...

Asphaltenes are molecular substances that are found in crude oil, along with resins, aromatic hydrocarbons, and alkanes (i.e., saturated hydrocarbo...

Biorefineries are the adaptation of the petroleum refinery scheme into a biomass-based production scheme. They comprise of a number of specialised ...

Asphaltenes are non-crystalline, brittle, and black solids. At high temperatures they can polymerize, and convert into coke or asphaltic residue. A...

The main objective of this manuscript is to successfully predict severe slugging behaviour in a catenary riser. A review of the existing literature...

Unlike conventional oil resources, unconventional oil resources have been known to exist only for the last few decades and are available in limited...