New Method to Characterize the Size and Shape Dynamics of Asphaltene Deposition Process in CO 2 Miscible Flooding

Proceedings - SPE International Improved Oil Recovery Conference in Asia Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 317-327

  Fisher, Douglas ^a   Yazawa, Nintoku ^b   Sarma, Hemanta ^c   Girard, Marcel ^a   Turta, Alex ^a   Huang, Haibo ^a  

^a ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^b GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY (IOR); PARTICLE GROWTH FACTOR (PGF);

ASPHALT; DEPOSITION; FLOCCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSURE EFFECTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842538172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. A. Turta, D. Fisher, A.K. Singal, J. Najman, "Variation of Oil-solvent Mixture Viscosity in Relation to the Onset of Asphaltene Flocculation and Deposition", Special Edition Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology 38, No. 13 Paper: 97-81, 1999
2. Jamaluddin, A.K.M, Creek, J., Kabir, C.S., McFadden, J.D., D'Cruz, D., Mankalathil, J., Joshi, N., Ross, B., "Laboratory Techniques to Measure Thermodynamic Asphaltene Instability", JCPT, July 2002, Vol. 41.
3. When we refer to 1D and 2D we use the convention that 1D represents a row or column from the image matrix, or transmittance with respect to time, whereas 2D refers to an image matrix.