A new chemical compound is developed at Petroleum University of Technology to enhance the recovery of the free imbibition process and simultaneously hinder asphaltene precipitation. The compound is tested on heavy oil samples from Marun oil field, Bangestan reservoir. The effects of the chemical compound on viscosity, hydrocarbon composition, and average molecular weight of the heavy oil are in...

Spontaneous imbibition is of special importance to oil recovery from fractured reservoirs. Laboratory measurements of volume of liquid imbibed versus time are often used in the prediction of oil recovery. Imbibition measurements also provide a useful approach to the complex problem of characterizing the wetting properties of porous media. Correlation of a large body of data for imbibition of br...

Fractional flow analysis confirms the advantages of surfactant alternative gas injection (SAG) in enhanced oil recovery, but an adsorption phenomenon that has been affected by several factors, weakens the effectiveness of SAG injection. In this study, the effects of sacrificial agent, gas phase, and surfactant concentration on adsorption density on silica mineral were investigated by static and...

OVERVIEW OF THE BROOKIAN STRUCTURAL PLAYS THERMAL CONSIDERATIONS STRUCTURAL CLOSURE ANALYSIS BROOKIAN TOPSET STRUCTURAL PLAY PLAY ATTRIBUTES Volumetric Parameters Reservoir thickness Area of closure Porosity and hydrocarbon pore volume Trap Fill Trap depth Number of prospects Oil and Gas parameters Oil recovery factor Non-associated gas recovery factor Oil gravity and sulfur content GOR at medi...

The regeneration process in saturated dehydrator after working to drying the gas dehydration unit Natural Gas Liquified Extraction (NGLE) plant. This is through heating by flowing into slowly (rump up temperature) until it reaches temperature,and then holding condition. Its condition accordance with engineering design and followed a rump down temperature which will be cooled ready for process. ...

Issues of oil spills in various locations worldwide have been widely published several studies. However, studies on policy management and strategies for handling cases related to are still limited. As one the largest oil-producing countries with international shipping traffic, Indonesia is vulnerable spills. Therefore, by drawing upon evidence from Bintan Island, this study aims provide recomme...

Lipases are water-soluble enzymes that act on insoluble substrates and catalyze the hydrolysis of long-chain triglycerides. Lipases play a vital role in the food, detergent, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. In the past, fungal lipases gained significant attention in the industries due to their substrate specificity and stability under varied chemical and physical conditions. Fungal enzy...

CONTEXT Anthropogenic vectors enhance the natural dispersal capacity of plant seeds significantly in terms of quantity and distance. Human-mediated seed dispersal (i.e. anthropochory) greatly increases the dispersal of crop species across agroecosystems. In the case of oilseed rape (OSR), spillage of seeds from grain trailers during harvest has never been quantified. METHODS Our experimental ...

April 20, 2010 marked the start of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in US history, which contaminated coastal wetland ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. We used hyperspectral data from 2010 and 2011 to compare the impact of oil contamination and recovery of coastal wetland vegetation across three ecologically diverse sites: Barataria Ba...