It is interesting to note that Hubbert had it right: he forecasted that the world oil would peak in 2000. At that time, he meant of course mainly the conventional, light sweet “Texan” oil. The share of non-conventional oil has risen steadily. When Hubbert made his forecast there was i...
Oil cracking involves the thermal breakdown of heavy hydrocarbons to smaller ones, or the process of ultimately converting oil to hydrogen-rich gas and carbon-rich pyrobitumen59. In our hydrothermal pyrolysis, we found that the extent of oil cracking (EOC; i.e., the percentage of liquid hydroc...
Oil shalesTest and evaluationCatalystsHydrogenationIsomerizationReaction kineticsSolid state chemistryCommercial equipmentA number of facts have been observed during the course of the study and these have led to further tests or catalyst preparations, some of which have been completed, but many are in ...
synthetic oil wells (see Fig.1). As an alternative to legacy fossil fuel, these oil wells can be tapped, shared and stored, with the option for the property owner to receive payment for any excess fed into a renewable oil grid. Envision this model adopted globally and collectively. This ...
Net energy is the real issue at any rate and counting a million barrels of ethanol as a million barrels of oil is a joke to anybody who passed freshman chemistry.The energy content is only about seventy percent of real oil. Then if we have the freshmen accounting majors to run the books...
Qatar has lots of natural gas but their oil production has clearly peaked and is now in pretty steep decline. From 2005 through 2010 the oil rig count in the UAE averaged around 12. In October their oil rig count stood at 46, almost 4 times their average. They have managed to increase...
Diamondoid compounds are widely used to reflect thermal maturation of high mature source rocks or oils and oil cracking extents. However, diamondoids and thiadiamondoids were demonstrated to have newly been generated and decomposed in our hydrothermal pyrolysis of crude oil and TSR experiments. Our...
Crude oil, liquid petroleum that is found accumulated in various porous rock formations in Earth’s crust and is extracted for burning as fuel or for processing into chemical products. Crude oil is a mixture of varying hydrocarbons and other chemicals, a
crude oil;petroleum;droplet combustion;burning rate;ignition delay;soot deposits;Bakken crude;Pennsylvania crude;Colorado crude;Texas crude 1. Introduction Recent decades have seen growing energy demand due to the increasing trend of industrialization in the world as well as population growth. Crude oil...
The oil tank can form a considerable amount of sludge deposition after continuous accumulation, which cause a seriously negative impact on both the storage capacity and the safe operation of the oil tank. Therefore, it is important to anticipate the rate of sludge deposition in advance so that ...