Crude oil is the major source of energy worldwide being exploited as a source of economy, including Oman. As the price of crude oil increases and crude oil reserves collapse, exploitation of oil resources in mature reservoirs is essential for meeting future energy demands. As conventional recovery methods currently used have become less efficient for the needs, there is a continuous demand of d...

it has been known for years that microbial surface active agents have a wide range of applications not only in oil spill environment but also in many industries. their properties including: (i) changing surface active phenomena, such as lowering of surface and interfacial tensions, (ii) wetting and penetrating actions, (iii) spreading, (iv) hydrophylicity and hydrophobicity actions, (v) microbi...

in this work, the potential of auto-ignition of heavy oil during in-situ combustion (isc) process was studied. kinetic studies were carried out using thermo gravimetric analyzer (tga), differential scanning calorimetry (dsc) and accelerating rate calorimetric (arc) techniques. effects of oxygen partial pressure, reservoir pressure and clay on auto ignition condition were investigated on a numbe...

in the 1970 s, regulations in some counries forced usersof heavy residue to limit pollutant emissions at industrial sites, also forced producers to up grade their heavy products for export and domestic use. for this reason iran as a producer, exporter and consumer has to develop mew upgrading processes.the most common processes for upgrading heavy oil are catalytic processes, but existence of h...

Heavy oil is one of the most serious pollutants in marine ecosystem. The poisonous influences of the chemical substances contained in heavy oil on many kinds of marine organisms are widely studied. However, the influence of the chemical compounds in heavy oil on our health has not been cleared yet. In order to reveal the poisonous influences of these chemical compounds on mammalian reproductive...

oil and pollutants resulting from its extraction and exploitation are considered as one of the serious problems for human health. vast oil fields of ahvaz city located in southern iran are known as one of controversial subjects in contamination with heavy metals. in this study, oil fields' soils of ahvaz city (ab-teymour) were chemically analyzed in order to determine the concentration of eight...

several studies have shown that oil recovery significantly increased by low salinity water flooding (lswf) in sandstones. however, mechanism of oil recovery improvement is still controversial. co2 that develops buffer in presence of water is expected as a deterrent factor in lswf efficiency based on mechanism of ift reduction due to ph uprising. no bright evidence in literature supports this id...