Due to the growing global energy demand and increasingly limited availability of
conventional or easy-to-produce crude oils, extensive attention is being paid to the …

Nowadays, the output of light crude oil is approaching its peak, which has shifted the
attentions of petroleum industry to a large quantity of heavy oil and bitumen in order to offset …

The application of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry is on the rise as evidenced by
the number of researches undertaken in the past few years. The quest to develop more …

Utilization of nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has attracted great attention in
recent decades. However, various constraints influence fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions …

In this study, oil-soluble transition metal-based catalysts (Fe, Co, Ni) are proposed for
catalyzing aquathermolysis reactions in steam injection process for heavy oil production to …

Enhanced oil recovery is proposed as a solution for declining oil production. One of the
advanced trends in the petroleum industry is the application of nanotechnology for …

As a significant unconventional petroleum resource, heavy oil plays a crucial strategic,
economic, and technological role in China. Its extraction enhances domestic energy …

Utilization of the abundant heavy crude oil resources has been accepted as an effective
approach to tackle the shortage of light oil supply in the coming decades. However, the high …

The goal of this work is to try to figure out the role of water in catalytic and non-catalytic
aquathermolysis by using isotope tracing techniques. For this purpose, heavy water …

In Colombia, the estimated reserves of crude oil are approximately 2.0 thousand million
barrels, decreasing by approximately 13% in the last year according to the National …