Session 106 - Oil Characterization and Thermodynamics as Related to Flow Assurance I


Transport and Energy Processes
Session 106 - Oil Characterization and Thermodynamics as Related to Flow Assurance I
Keeping crude oil pipelines in flowing is of economic and strategic importance. Oil is being produced from increasingly deep prospects off-shore. In the process, oils with significantly different characteristics get mixed. Oils are complex mixtures and contain varying amounts of waxes and asphaltenes. Waxes precipitate when temperatures drop below wax precipitation temperatures and asphaltenes come out of solution when pressures are reduced or incompatible solvents are mixed with oils. In this session, we will address fundamental characterization of oils and their bulk and thermodynamic properties including rheological properties. We will also consider contributions about thermodynamic, flow and integrated models, and papers addressing oil compatibility issues.
Chair:	Jules Magda
CoChair:	Milind Deo
	106a	Characterization of Oilfield Waxes Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Shuqiang Gao, Ying Jiang, Anthony Rodriguez
	106b	Wax Deposition Modeling In Oil/water Two-Phase Flows Zhenyu Huang, H. Scott Fogler
	106c	The Role of Polydispersity on Gel Strength In Alkane Solutions Michael Senra, H. Scott Fogler
	106d	Modeling of Heavy Oils Under Wide Range of Conditions with the Friction Theory Sergio E. Quińones-Cisneros, Patsy V. Ramírez-González, Torben Laursen, Jefferson Creek, Ulrich K. Deiters

Transport and Energy Processes