Asphaltene deposition in the reservoirs, tubbing, and surface facilities causes serious flow
assurance problems with significant economic implications. Asphaltene flow assurance …

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), as a commercially proven high ultimate recovery
process for heavy oil and bitumen is energy intensive and may be limited by high usage of …

Asphaltene has been recognized as the cholesterol of petroleum for decades due to its
precipitation and deposition in oil production, transportation and processing facilities …

Asphaltene deposition prevention, mitigation, and management remains a major challenge
to the oil industry due to its complexity, poor understanding, and inadequate predictive tools …

A technique to quickly determine the asphaltene onset pressure (AOP) of a crude oil from
low‐volume, nonequilibrium measurements is presented. The pressure at which the optical …

Abstract The Magwa-Marrat field started production early 1984 with an initial reservoir
pressure of 9,600 psia Thirty-six (36) producer wells have been drilled until now. By 1999 …

Deposition of asphaltenes upon precipitation is a main flow assurance concern, which
propelled the development of various experimental and modeling techniques to accurately …

The objective of this research is to properly calculate the association energy with molecular
models of asphaltenes using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. Asphaltene …

In a series of isothermal depressurizing tests to measure asphaltene onset pressure (AOP),
several depressurizing operations are usually conducted to multiple AOPs using the same …

Asphaltene deposition in the reservoir, wellbore and facilities has long been recognized as
a problem in the Marrat reservoir in the Magwa field, Kuwait. One option of avoiding …