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Heavy Crude Oil Recovery

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series E: (NSSE, volume 76)

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Within the last 10 years the world has come to a point where the easily explorable oil deposits have now been found, and it is anticipated that such deposits will be depleted by the beginning of the Twenty-first Century. However, the increasing demand of man­ kind for energy has caused technologists to look into ways of find­ ing new sources or to reevaluat:e unconventional sources which, in the past, have not been economical. In this respect, heavy crude and tar sand oils are becoming important in fulfilling the world's energy requirements. What are heavy crude and tar sand oils? There is still some confusion as to their definitions, inasmuch as they vary among organizations and countries. In an effort to set agreed meanings, UNITAR, in a meeting in February 1982 in Venezuela, proposed the following definitions (see also Table 1): 1. Heavy crude oil and tar sand oil are petroleum or petroleum­ like liquids or semi-solids naturally occurring in porous media. The porous media are sands, sandstone, and carbonate rocks. 2. These oils will be characterized by viscosity and density. Viscosity will be used to define heavy crude oil and tar sand oil, and density (oAPI) will be used when viscosity measurements are not available. 3. Heavy crude oil has a gas-free viscosity of 100-10000 mPa.s (cp) 3 o at reservoir temperatures, or a density of 943 kg/m (20 API) 3 o o to 1000 kg/m (10 API) at 15.6 C and at atmospheric oressure.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Petroleum Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ender Okandan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heavy Crude Oil Recovery

  • Editors: Ender Okandan

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series E:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6140-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2951-7Published: 30 April 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6142-5Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6140-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0168-132X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 428

  • Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering

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