[HTML][HTML] A review of in situ upgrading technology for heavy crude oil

Y Li, Z Wang, Z Hu, B Xu, Y Li, W Pu, J Zhao - Petroleum, 2021 - Elsevier
With the growing demand of oil worldwide, heavy oil has increasingly become vital in the
world energy market. However, further development of heavy oil reservoirs are limited by …

Improved predictability of in-situ-combustion enhanced oil recovery

ARR Kovscek, LMM Castanier… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2013 - onepetro.org
In-situ combustion (ISC) possesses advantages over surface-generated steam injection for
deep reservoirs in terms of wellbore heat losses and generation of heat above the critical …

An experimental investigation of the in-situ combustion behavior of Karamay crude oil

RB Zhao, YX Chen, RP Huang, LM Castanier… - SPE Western Regional …, 2013 - onepetro.org
In-situ combustion (ISC) is an effective thermal recovery process that provides an alternative
to steam injection. Air is injected into a reservoir to oxidize a small portion of the …

Machine learning augmented dead oil viscosity model for all oil types

U Sinha, B Dindoruk, M Soliman - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Dead oil viscosity is one of the most unreliable properties to predict with classical black oil
correlations. This results mostly from the large effect that oil type has on viscosity. Two dead …

Characteristics and properties of coke formed by low-temperature oxidation and thermal pyrolysis during in situ combustion

YB Li, C Luo, X Lin, K Li, ZR Xiao… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In order to understand the mechanism of in situ combustion, many studies have investigated
the characteristics and properties of oxidized coke and pyrolyzed coke. However, in earlier …

A New Simplified Kinetic Model for Hydrogen Generation During In-Situ Combustion Gasification of Heavy Oil

MA Ifticene, Y Li, P Song, Q Yuan - SPE Annual Technical Conference …, 2024 - onepetro.org
In the global push for sustainable energy, in-situ combustion gasification (ISCG) has
emerged as a transformative technology to leverage the world's abundant heavy oil reserves …

Kinetic Modeling of Hydrogen Generation via In Situ Combustion Gasification of Heavy Oil

MA Ifticene, Y Li, P Song, Q Yuan - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the global push for sustainable energy, in situ combustion gasification (ISCG) has
emerged as a transformative technology to leverage the world's abundant heavy oil reserves …

Physics augmented correlations and machine learning methods to accurately calculate dead oil viscosity based on the available inputs

U Sinha, B Dindoruk, MY Soliman - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
Viscosity is one of the key parameters that is necessary to describe the fluid flow and
pressure propagation in porous media as well as flow in pipes and various types of conduits …

Consistency measures for isoconversional interpretation of in-situ combustion reaction kinetics

B Chen, LM Castanier, AR Kovscek - Energy & Fuels, 2014 - ACS Publications
The reaction kinetics of an in situ combustion process were studied via ramped temperature
oxidation within a kinetic cell system. A methodology is established for rapid assessment of …

Kinetics oxidation of heavy oil. 2. Application of genetic algorithm for evaluation of kinetic parameters

A Lapene, G Debenest, M Quintard, LM Castanier… - Energy & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In-situ combustion (ISC) is the process of injecting air into oil reservoirs to oxidize part of the
crude oil and has been utilized for both light oil and heavy oil. The viscosity of the remaining …