Nanotechnology has the potential to introduce revolutionary changes to several areas of oil and gas industry such as exploration, production, enhanced oil recovery, and refining. In this paper, the effect of different concentrations of Fe2O3 nanoparticles as a catalyst on the heavy oil viscosity at various temperatures is studied. Furthermore, the effect of a mixture of Fe2O3 nanoparticles and ...

Crude vegetable oils contain triacylglycerols as major component and various minor components such as diacylglycerols, monoacylglycerols, free fatty acids, phospholipids, tocopherols, sterols, squalene, color pigments, waxes, aldehydes, ketones, triterpene alcohols and metals that may affect the quality of the final product. The minor components are removed partially or entirely by either physi...

Understanding the sources and quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is critical to developing an emissions inventory that accurately represents various oil and gas industry segment operations. To address this, the American Petroleum Institute (API) formed a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Methodology Working Group. The working group’s objectives were to review, summarize and recommend methodolo...

Current data on refinery products: LPG, mogas, naphtha, aviation fuel and Kerosene, gas/diesel oil, residual other total products, products. Countries covered: Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Kingdom. Average production is thousand barrels per day. Updated a monthly basis. crude oil runs.

A significant quantum of crude oil is trapped in reservoirs and often unrecoverable by conventional oil recovery methods. Further downstream, the petroleum industry is facing challenges to remove sulfur, metal, nitrogen as well as undesirable organic compounds from the crude. Conventional secondary recovery methods such as water and gas injections helped to increase the productivity of the well...

In this article, denaturing with aniline and refining process of the oil responsible for toxic oil syndrome is briefly reviewed. The aspects considered include description of conditions of the main refining steps in relation to aniline derivatives formation, with special focus on the deodorization stage. In this last step of the refining process, an increase in the temperature, applied to such ...

Cedar wood oil is ranked the tenth essential oil in the world, it can be obtained from fir wood waste, and high added value Cedar series perfumes are obtained from Cedar wood oil by chemical processing. Their aroma is very unique and cannot be replaced. At present, the cedar wood resources are dwindling; a serious influence had taken place in the flavor and fragrance industry. Study found that ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of changes that are taking place in global oil refining industry under influence current recession world economy. Despite recovery economy after pandemic, nevertheless, risks an intensification geopolitical conflict have led unprecedentedly difficult situation energy markets. Newly emerging restrictions international trade, including form sanctions, unstab...