The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

A recent study used various gas oils and blends with residual heavy oils in order to evaluate the predictability of four different correlations. The gas oils differed substantially in their ...

As defined by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), heavy oil is a type of crude oil characterized by an asphaltic, dense, viscous nature (similar to molasses), and its asphaltene (very large molecules ...

Vol. 5, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: International Oil and Gas Markets Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 1986 (1987), pp. 27-55 (29 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. The problems of ...

The measurement of an oil’s resistance to flow is known as its viscosity. Usually, with a temperature increase, we can expect viscosity to diminish, and reduce with a temperature decrease. Temperature ...