The role of crude oil on carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion has gained special attention in the last few years because of its signifi cance when predicting corrosion rates. However, the complexity and variability of crude oils makes it hard to model its effects, which can infl uence not only wettability properties but also the corrosiveness of the associated brine. This study evaluates the usefulne...

Inverse gas chromatography (IGC) was used to characterize two bituminous binders (A and B) of different origin. Glass transition temperatures (Tg) were determined by constructing van’t Hoff plots using n-pentane probes in a temperature range between -50 °C and +120 °C. Tg values were specified using the first deviations from linearity observed in the adsorption zone of the plots. A 6 °C differe...

Heavy oil is considered as a multipurpose complex mineral, and the processing of heavy oils “complex problem”, aimed both at increasing yield light fractions “transport” ability oil, extracting metals from asphaltene resinous fraction. The recovery (such vanadium, nickel, titanium, iron, etc.) was performed by cavitation extraction technology with use hydrocarbon solvents chemical extractants, ...

It is often presumed that fine-scale surface pores and roughness in reservoir rock remain water-wet. To test this assumption, deposition tendency of asphaltenes and resins during crude oil aging of brine-filled pores was investigated. Model frameworks of water-wet silica with sub-micron pores were synthesized as planar films of thickness 5 μm. These pore networks were conditioned in brine, subm...