Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils

A comprehensive guide to a cutting-edge and cost-effective refinement process for heavy oil

Oil sufficiently viscous that it cannot flow normally from production wells is called heavy oil and constitutes as much as 70% of global oil reserves. Extracting and refining this oil can pose significant challenges, including very high transportation costs. As a result, processes which produce and partially refine heavy oil in situ, known as catalytic upgrading, are an increasingly important part of the heavy oil extraction process, and the reduced carbon footprint associated with these methods promises to make them even more significant in the coming years.

Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils provides a comprehensive introduction to these processes. It introduces the properties and characteristics of heavy and extra-heavy oil before discussing different catalysts and catalyzing processes, their mechanisms and underlying physics, and more. It offers the full sweep of description and analysis required for petroleum and chemical engineers to understand this vital aspect of the modern oil industry.

Readers will also find:

Detailed discussion of subjects including electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and more
• Analysis of both liquid catalysts and nanoparticle catalysts
• A numerical simulation of the catalytic in-situ oil upgrading process

Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils is a valuable reference for petroleum and chemical engineers as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in related fields.

Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, PhD, is Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Head of the Enhanced Oil Laboratory of Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published extensively on heavy oil, in-situ upgrading, and related subjects.

Chengdong Yuan, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published widely on hydrocarbon recovery, in-situ heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.

Jorge Ancheyta, PhD, is Manager of Products for the Transformation of Crude Oil at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum, where he has worked since 1989, as well as Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City. He has taught and published prodigiously on petroleum refinement, heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.

About the editors

List of contributors

Preface

Chapter 1 Properties of heavy and extra-heavy crude oils

Chapter 2 Advanced characterization of heavy crudes and their fractions

2.1 EPR spectroscopy

2.2 NMR-spectroscopy and NMR-relaxometry

2.3 FTIR-spectroscopy

2.4 Analysis of heavy crude oil and its refined products by various chromatographic and mass spectrometry methods

Chapter 3 Applications of enhanced oil recovery techniques of heavy crudes

Chapter 4 Fundamentals of in-situ upgrading

Chapter 5 Catalyst for in-situ upgrading of heavy oils

Chapter 6 Nanoparticles for heavy oil in-situ upgrading

Chaper 7 Catalytic mechanism and kinetics

Chapter 8 Application of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Studying Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Catalytic Mechanisms of In Situ Upgrading

Chapter 9 Behavior of catalyst in porous media

Chapter 10 Numerical simulation of catalytic in-situ oil upgrading process

Chapter 11 Novel technologies for upgrading heavy and extra-heavy oil 

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