Heavy Oil Exploitation
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Heavy crude oils have a unique chemical nature that creates many technical challenges. In this new book, four heavy oil and bitumen experts deliver a comprehensive look at the complexities of this alternative petroleum resource. With its high viscosity and complex hydrocarbon chemistry, heavy oil requires technical personnel to use innovative approaches to enable it to flow in a porous formation and also in the production circuit and finally to treat and convert it into valuable products. While plentiful deposits exist throughout the world, this heavy hydrocarbon requires upgrades in skill and process to extract, transport, and refine.
The idea for this book originated from a course for nontechnical professionals that we prepared and gave repeatedly over the past few years. The material was updated before almost every course as we learned more about the industry, especially from great student questions that required us to go back and research the topics in more depth. Like the course, this book attempts to encompass all aspects of heavy oil exploitation from geology to production to transport to upgrading. As such, the book provides a very broad overview of the full life cycle of heavy oil development. While the material does demand a basic understanding of organic chemistry as well as petroleum, mechanical, and chemical engineering, the intent is to provide an overview that would benefit both technical and nontechnical professionals working in the petroleum industry, as well as university students who require an introductory text on heavy oil exploitation. In line with providing a broad overview for both technical and nontechnical professionals, we have attempted to keep the technical details and use of equations or discipline- specific terminology to a minimum. Since technical terminology cannot be completely avoided, we have provided as many definitions as possible throughout the text. For those who are inspired to dig deeper into specific technical aspects of heavy oil exploitation, we have also attempted to provide as many valuable references as possible.
The idea for this book originated from a course for nontechnical professionals that we prepared and gave repeatedly over the past few years. The material was updated before almost every course as we learned more about the industry, especially from great student questions that required us to go back and research the topics in more depth. Like the course, this book attempts to encompass all aspects of heavy oil exploitation from geology to production to transport to upgrading. As such, the book provides a very broad overview of the full life cycle of heavy oil development. While the material does demand a basic understanding of organic chemistry as well as petroleum, mechanical, and chemical engineering, the intent is to provide an overview that would benefit both technical and nontechnical professionals working in the petroleum industry, as well as university students who require an introductory text on heavy oil exploitation. In line with providing a broad overview for both technical and nontechnical professionals, we have attempted to keep the technical details and use of equations or discipline- specific terminology to a minimum. Since technical terminology cannot be completely avoided, we have provided as many definitions as possible throughout the text. For those who are inspired to dig deeper into specific technical aspects of heavy oil exploitation, we have also attempted to provide as many valuable references as possible.