Compositional analysis of crude oils is very important along the entire value chain of the oil
industry, from upstream to midstream and downstream operations. An essential step of this …

A series of reactive pour point depressants (PPD) with anhydride group were prepared, and
their action mechanism had been investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy …

Abstract The Moxi–Gaoshiti Bulge of the Sichuan Basin in southwestern China is unique
because it provides insights into the geochemistry of Lower Cambrian reservoir bitumens …

Understanding the relationships between migrated hydrocarbons and source rocks under
highly mature conditions (ie, pyrobitumen–source correlation) is a critical and challenging …

Enormous production losses have ascended in diverse operational and technical issues
due to deposition of heavy crude oil (HCO) in various production components like tubing …

The deposition of crude oil in various production and surfaces facilities such as oil storage
tanks in the form of tank-bottom sludge, pipeline deposition, skin formation at the near well …

This study focuses on an experimental investigation of asphaltene deposition in a vertical
transparent microchannel. Heptane-induced asphaltene precipitation is utilized to …

In this work, using the pentaerythritol with phthalic anhydride and different long-carbon chain
alcohols to synthesize a kind of hyperbranched polyester (FI) as flow improver for crude oil …

Oil soluble viscosity reducers have gradually attracted the attention of petrochemical
research due to their cleanliness and high efficiency. Considering the high viscosity and non …

Herein, we report a method of upgrading unconventional crude oils and extra heavy
fractions using supercritical methanol (scMeOH) and compare it to supercritical water …