Conference program summary

CONFERENCE PROGRAM SUMMARY Day Morning Afternoon Evening Sunday Registration Mixer Monday ThermodynamicsJill Buckley* MacromoleculesPeter Kilpatrick* PostersShawn Taylor* Tuesday EmulsionsJohan Sjöblom* ExcursionBill Power* Conference dinner Wednesday WaxesKlaus Weispfennig* UpgradingMurray Gray* Asphaltene standardization discussion / Posters Thursday ProductionHarvey Yarranton* Departure * Event organizer# Chair^ THERMODYNAMICS, Monday, June 14th, morning Time Authors Title 1 8:15 – 8:55 Jefferson L. Creek Keynote: ☺Freedom of action in the state of asphaltenes: escape from conventional wisdom 2 8:55 – 9:20 ^ S. Correra, F. Capuano, N. Panariti ☺Onset of Asphaltene Precipitation: Analysis of Measurement Methods 3 9:20 – 9 45 Yadolla Maham, Martin Chodakowski, Xiaohui Zhang and John M. Shaw ☺Asphaltene phase behavior 4 9:45 – 10:10 ^ Doris L. Gonzalez , David P. Ting, George J. Hirasaki, and Walter G. Chapman ☺Prediction of asphaltene instability under pressure depletion and gas injection using the SAFT EOS 10:10 – 10 30 Coffee break 5 10:30 – 10:55 ^ Kurt A. G. Schmidt, Sergio E. Quiñones-Cisneros, Bjørn Kvamme, and Erling H. Stenby ☺Density and viscosity behaviour of a North Sea crude oil, natural gas liquid and their mixtures 6 10.55 – 11:20 ^ Niels Lindeloff, Abul K. M. Jamaluddin and Karen S. Pedersen ☺Upstream live oil asphaltene modeling 7 11:20 – 11:45 N. Impens, J. Van Laer, R. Vandevoorde ☺Stability of concentrated bitumen-salt-solvent mixtures 8 11:45 – 12:10 Keith L. Gawrys and Peter K. Kilpatrick ☺Small-angle neutron scattering determination of second virial coefficients for asphaltenes in the presence of various dispersants Return to program summaryMACROMOLECULES, Monday, June 14th, afternoon Time Authors Title 9 13:15 – 13:55 ^ Oliver Mullins Keynote: ☺Molecular structure and primary aggregation of asphaltenes 10 13:55 – 14:20 Piyarat Wattana, H Scott Fogler, and Andrew Yen ☺Characterization of polarity based asphaltene subfractions 11 14:20 – 14 45 ^ Ryan P. Rodgers, Geoffrey C. Klein, Lateefah A. Stanford and Alan G. Marshall ☺Petroleomics: FT-ICR high resolution mass spectral analysis of petroleum derived materials 12 14:45 – 15:10 ^ J.M Sheremata, M.R. Gray and W.C. McCaffrey ☺Development and refinement of quantitative molecular representations of Athabasca vacuum residue 15:10 – 15 30 Coffee break 13 15:30 – 15:55 ^ Eric B. Sirota ☺Understanding the physical structure of asphaltenes 14 15.55 – 16:20 Arnaud Lager, Barry Bennett , Steve Larter ☺Petroleum sample instability: implications for “asphaltene” description 15 16:20 – 16:45 ^ Haruo Kumagai, Ryuzo Tanaka and Tadatoshi Chiba ☺Kinetic study of asphaltene aggregates dissociation by means of pulse 1H-NMR 16 15:45 – 17:10 ^ Géza Horváth-Szabó, Jacob H. Masliyah ☺Is there any water pool in asphaltene micelles? Return to program summaryPOSTERS, Monday, June 14th, eveningEMULSIONS, Tuesday, June 15th, morning Time Authors Title 17 8:15 – 8:55 ^ Clayton Radke Keynote: ☺Asphaltene adsorption at the crude oil/water interface: Implications for emulsion stability and wettability alteration 18 8:55 – 9:20 ^ Stig E. Friberg ☺Hydrotropes – Performance Chemicals 19 9:20 – 9 45 Géza Horváth-Szabó, Jacob H. Masliyah, Janet A. W. Elliott, Harvey W. Yarranton, and Jan Czarnecki ☺Thermodynamic characterization of adsorption layers of crude components at aqueous / oleic interfaces: adsorption isotherms of associating asphaltenes 20 9:45 – 10:10 S. Poteau, ^ J-F. Argillier, D. Langevin ☺Influence of pH on dynamic properties of asphaltenes and surfactants at the oil-water interface 10:10 – 10 30 Coffee break 21 10:30 – 10:55 ^ R.C.G. Oliveira, M.C.K. Oliveira ☺The impact of the droplet size distribution on the crude oil emulsion flow insurance 22 10.55 – 11:20 Alejandro A. Peña, ^ George J. Hirasaki, and Clarence A. Miller ☺On the mechanism of demulsification of oilfield emulsions by chemical treatment 23 11:20 – 11:45 Paul M. Lindemuth and Neil Grainger ☺Oilfield vs. refinery demulsification: learning from the differences 24 11:45 – 12:10 A.P. Sullivan, N.N. Zaki, J. Sjöblom, M.L. Marques and ^ P.K. Kilpatrick ☺The stability of water-in-crude and model oil emulsions Return to program summaryWAXES, Wednesday, June 16th, morning Time Authors Title 25 8:15 – 8:55 ^ George Broze Keynote: ☺Wax deposition: essential physics for accurate modeling 26 8:55 – 9:20 Xiaoli Yang and Peter Kilpatrick ☺Isolation and characterization of asphaltenes and waxes from solid organic deposits: relationship to parent crude petroleum 27 9:20 – 9 45 ^ Nitin V. Bhat and Anil K. Mehrotra ☺Phase behavior of wax-solvent mixtures between wax disappearance temperature (WDT) and wax appearance temperature (WAT) 28 9:45 – 10:10 Mohammed Zougari, George Broze, Adbel Kharrat, Nick Fuex, Moin Muhammad, and Ahmed Hammami ^ ☺Wax deposition from GOM waxy crude: A parametric study 10:10 – 10:30 Coffee break 29 10:30 – 10:55 ^ David W. Jennings and Klaus Weispfennig ☺Effects of shear & temperature on wax deposition: cold finger investigation with a GOM crude oil 30 10.55 – 11:20 Jamal Ibrahim, ^ Peter Toma, John Ivory, Gerard Korpany, Mario de Rocco, Larry Holloway ☺Direct observations on paraffin deposition mechanism under laminar and turbulent flow for direct applications to paraffin oil transportation 31 11:20 – 11:45 ^ Kristofer G. Paso and H. Scott Fogler ☺Bulk stabilization in wax deposition systems 32 11:45 – 12:10 Gian-Paolo Borghi and Sebastiano Correra ^ ☺A new gelled oil restart model Return to program summaryUPGRADING, Wednesday, June 16th, afternoon Time Authors Title 33 13:15 – 13:55 ^ Isao Mochida, Yosuke Kinoshita, Masahito Kuramae, Ki-Hyouk Choi and Yozo Korai Keynote: ☺Unexpected problems caused by dry sludge in the upgrading processes of petroleum products 34 13:55 – 14:20 ^ Pedro R. Pereira, Igzobel Castro, Maria L. Frauwallner, Carmen Galarraga, Jimmy Castillo, Maria A. Ranaudo ☺Comparison of asphaltenes processed under thermal conversion and catalytic steam cracking 35 14:20 – 14 45 Adrienne M. Inman, Sara L. Salmon, ^ Heather D. Dettman, Kerry T. Scott, and Bryan J. Fuhr ☺Characterization of asphaltene fractions from gel permeation chromatography using NMR spectroscopy, high temperature simulated distillation and vapor pressure osmometry 36 14:45 – 15:10 Dai-wei Gao, Jin-sen Gao, Chun-ming Xu ☺Study of coking mechanisms of the heavy fraction of FCC slurry 15:10 – 15 30 Coffee break 37 15:30 – 15:55 ^ Christopher A. Bennett, Thomas M. Rudy, Himanshu M. Joshi, Tin Yin Lam, and Dave C. King ☺Industry-recommended procedures for crude oil fouling research 38 15.55 – 16:20 Hong E and Paul Watkinson ☺Heat Exchanger Fouling in Heavy Oil Systems 39 16:20 – 16:45 Wim M. Bond, Fred A.A. Hoeve, Don F. Mulder, Sacha Imamkhan, Erwin H. Munsterman and Frans G.A. van den Berg ☺Integrated approaches to fouling abatement in crude oil heat exchanger trains 40 15:45 – 17:10 ^ Sanyi Wang, Dale Nesbitt, Larry Paul, Eric Axcell, Virgil Little and Ron Bosch ☺Mitigation of heat exchanger fouling in a SAGD pilot plant Return to program summaryASPHALTENE STANDARDIZATION DISCUSSION and POSTERS, Wednesday, June 16th, eveningPRODUCTION, Thursday, June 17th, morning Time Authors Title 41 8:15 – 8:55 J. Ratulowski, A. Hammami, M. Muhammad and M. Zougari ^ Keynote: ☺Flow assurance implications of asphaltene precipatation and deposition 42 8:55 – 9:20 Matthew Flannery, Peter Cornelisse, Nancy Utech, and Nick Fuex ^ ☺Impact of asphaltene stability on commingled production design: A deepwater Gulf of Mexico case study 43 9:20 – 9 45 Yongsheng Zhang, Jianxin Wang, Norman R. Morrow,and Jill S. Buckley ^ ☺Effect of synthetic drilling fluid base oils on asphaltene stability and wetting in sandstone cores 44 9:45 – 10:10 Moin Muhammad, Nikhil Joshi, Jeff Creek, and Jim McFadden ☺Effect of oil based mud contamination on live fluid asphaltene precipitation pressure 10:10 – 10 30 Coffee break 45 10:30 – 10:55 ^ Francois Gelin, Mark Grutters, Peter Cornelisse and Shawn Taylor ☺Asphaltene precipitation from live oil containing emulsified water 46 10.55 – 11:20 Hussein Alboudwarej, David Pole, William Y. Svrcek, Harvey W. Yarranton ^ ☺Adsorption of Asphaltenes on Metals 47 11:20 – 11:45 Kunal Karan and Kui Xie ☺A study of asphaltene adsorption on metal surfaces using quartz crystal microbalance 48 11:45 – 12:10 Sen J. Ubbels ^ ☺Preventing naphthenate stabilised emulsions and naphthenate deposits during crude oil processing Return to program summaryGENERAL TOPICS POSTER SESSIONPlease check after March 31, 2004 for your assigned Poster ID and Room . Poster ID& Room No Authors Title 49 Jianxin Wang and Jill S. Buckley ☺Solubility conditions at the onset of asphaltene flocculation 50 ^ Douglas Fisher, Nintoku Yazawa, Hemanta Sarma, Marcel Girard, Haibo Huang ☺Size and Shape Characterization of Asphaltene Particles during Precipitation and Flocculation 51 ^ Kamran Akbarzadeh, Hussein Alboudwarej, William Y. Svrcek, Harvey W. Yarranton ☺Towards generalization of the regular solution model for predicting asphaltene precipitation from n-alkane diluted heavy oils 52 ^ Hélène Buron, Pascal Bru, Jim Munhall ☺Asphaltenes stability in crude oil and heavy fuel 53 Haibo Huang, Douglas Fisher, Ted Frauenfeld and Kevin Rispler ☺Asphaltene precipitation/flocculation behavior in heavy oils mixed with aliphatic solvents 54 ^ Bryan J. Fuhr, Craig Hawrelechko, Larry R. Holloway and Haibo Huang ☺Comparison of bitumen fractionation methods 55 Y. Wen, A. Kantzas, and G. Wang ☺Estimation of diffusion coefficients in bitumen solvent mixtures using x-ray cat scanning and low field NMR 56 ^ Marek Rogalski, Pierre Magriand Gédeon Ekulu ☺Scanning calorimetry of crude oils 57 Emmanuel Behar ☺Physico-chemical characterization of unstable asphaltenic reservoir crudes 58 C. Pierre, I. Hénaut and J F. Argillier ☺Comparative organization of asphaltenes and resins in model solvent and in heavy oil 59 ^ Juan Pereira, Edgar Carrasquero, Leyan Becerrit ☺Interaction study of resins with colloidal fractions of asphaltene 60 Toshimasa Takanohashi, Shinya Sato, Ikuo Saito and Ryuzo Tanaka ☺Molecular dynamics simulation of structural relaxation for asphaltene aggregates in solvents 61 Alexandre N.M. Carauta, Julio C.G. Correia, Daniel M. Silva, ^ Peter R. Seidl, Erika C.A.N. Chrisman, Sonia M.C. de Menezes, Wladimir F. de Souza, Marco A.G. Teixeira ☺Modeling the effect of solvents on asphaltene aggregates 62 ^ Peter R. Seidl, Erika C.A.N. Chrisman, Príscila O. Menechini, Katia Z. Leal, Sonia M.C. de Menezes ☺Modeling structures from NMR data 63 D. Kvostichenko and S.I.Andersen ☺Investigations of electrodeposition of asphaltenes and asphaltenic subfractions 64 ^ Géza Horváth-Szabó, Jacob H. Masliyah, and Jan Czarnecki ☺Water promotion and maltene inhibition on asphaltene association 65 ^ Henry Labrador, María Arrázola, Carlos Berroterán, and Juan Pereira ☺The amphiphiles effect of natural and synthetical upon the asphaltenes of Monagas crude oils (Venezuela) 66 Fabricio Arteaga-Larios, Eric Y. Sheu, Elias Pérez ☺Two dimensional asphaltene precipitations 67 Abdel M. Kharrat ^ ☺Critical assessment of selected sara methodologies 68 K. K. (Adry) Bissada, Ewa B. Szymczyk, and David G. Nolte ☺Enhanced SARA and pin group-type separations and quantification – in crude-oil and condensate characterization 69 Kenneth M. Barker, and Michael E. Newberry ☺ASTM maximum pour point: What does it really mean? 70 W.M.S. Kassim, ^ H.A. Mansoori, E.E. Zorgani ☺An experimental study of wax deposition in crude oil pipeline. 71 Paul Ross, Stefan Smuk, John Nighswander ^ ☺Quantification of oil based mud filtrate in contaminated reservoir fluid samples 72 A. Cosultchi, B. Zeifert, I. Cordova, M.A. Valenzuela, P. Bosch, V.H. Lara ☺Effect of crude oil adsorption on natural Montmorillonite 73 Zhongxin Huo, Shawn Taylor, Moin Muhammad, and Heng-Joo Ng ^ ☺Hydrate equilibrium: prediction and measurement 74 Alfred Hase ☺Impact of pressure and temperature on different asphaltene solvent / precipitant systems 75 Kevin Moran ☺Coalescence of small bitumen droplets 76 Sunil L. Kokal, Mohammad Al-Dokhi and Makki Al-Zubail ^ ☺Asphaltene precipitation in a saturated, gas-cap reservoir 77 Oswaldo J. Asprino and Murray Gray ☺Measurement of contact angle of asphaltenes on different solid surfaces 78 ^ Michael K. Poindexter, Shannon Chuai, Robert A. Marble, Samuel C. Marsh Elucidation of Factors Governing Emulsion Stability 79 Liyan Zhao and Phillip Choi ☺A molecular dynamics study of the coalescence of two nanometer-sized water droplets in an n-heptane environment with one being covered by 1-naphthalenepentalnoic acid 80 Mohammad Al-Dokhi and Sunil L. Kokal ☺Emulsion studies at reservoir conditions 81 Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and Sunil L. Kokal ☺Emulsion separation experience from a large oil field 82 ^ Danuta M. Sztukowski and Harvey W. Yarranton ☺Synergy between asphaltenes and oil sands solids in stabilizing water-in-oil emulsions 83 ^ Jonathan Allinson, Barry Bennett, Stephen R. Larter ☺Role of non-hydrocarbons in crude oil emulsions 84 Joseph L. Stark and Samuel Asomaning ☺Synergies between asphaltene stabilizers and demulsifying agents giving improved demulsification of asphaltene-stabilized emulsions 85 X.A. Wu and J. Czarnecki ☺A thermodynamic model of competitive adsorption of two surface-active species on diluted bitumen-water interface 86 ^ Marek Rogalski, Roland Solimandoand Ewa Rogalska ☺Properties of asphaltene films formed on the water/oil interface 87 Li Yan Zhang, Zhenghe Xu and Jacob H Masliyah ☺Asphaltene monolayers at toluene-water interface 88 Yicheng Long, Tadeusz Dabros, and Hassan Hamza ^ ☺Structure of water/solids/asphaltenes aggregates and their settling behavior in solvent-diluted bitumen 89 Tadeusz Dabros, Xiaoli Yang, Yicheng Long, and Hassan Hamza ☺Settling Properties of Solvent-Diluted Bitumen Emulsions 90 Probjot Singh, William H. Thomason, David Blumer, and Lou Nathanson ☺Flow properties of Alaskan heavy oil emulsions 91 ^ Xiaoli Yang and Jan Czarnecki ☺Removal of water and fine solids from Athabasca bitumen 92 E. Musiał, J. Masliyah, S. Bhattacharjee and J. Czarnecki ☺Estimation of a critical electric field (CEF) on individual emulsion droplet pairs using conducting micropipette method 93 ^ A.R.H. Goodwin, E.P. Donzier, O. Vancauwenberghe, and S. Jacobs ☺Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) for the measurement of density and viscosity 94 ^ Xiaohui Zhang and John M. Shaw ☺Dynamic local phase concentration measurements in emulsions, dispersions and slurries 95 A.P. Watkinson ☺A comparison of crude oil fouling using two different laboratory test units 96 Xiaohui Zhang, Bei Zhao and John M. Shaw ☺Coke formation and catalyst deactivation in hydroprocessing of resides Return to program summaryAuthors:Akbarzadeh – 51Al-Dokhi – 76, 80Al-Ghamdi – 81Al-Zubail – 76Alboudwarej – 46, 51Allinson – 83Andersen – 63Argillier – 20, 58Arrázola – 65Arteaga-Larios – 66Asomaning – 84Asprino – 77Axcell – 40Barker – 69Becerrit – 59Behar – 57Bennett – 14, 37, 83Berg – 39Berroterán – 65Bhat – 27Bhattacharjee – 92Bissada – 68Blumer – 90Bond – 39Borghi – 32Bosch – 40, 72Broze – 25, 28Bru – 52Buckley – 43, 49Buron – 52Capuano – 2Carauta – 61Carrasquero – 59Castillo – 34Castro – 34Chapman – 4Chiba – 15Chodakowski – 3Choi – 33, 79Chrisman – 61, 62Chuai – 78Cordova – 72Cornelisse – 42, 45Correia – 61Correra – 2, 32Cosultchi – 72Creek – 1, 44 Czarnecki – 19, 64, 85, 91, 92Dabros – 88, 89Dettman – 35Donzier – 93E – 38Ekulu – 56Elliott – 19Fisher – 50, 53Flannery – 42Fogler – 10, 31Frauenfeld – 53Frauwallner – 34Friberg – 18Fuex – 28, 42Fuhr – 35, 54Galarraga – 34Gao – 36, 36Gawrys – 8Gelin – 45Girard – 50Gonzalez – 4Goodwin – 93Grainger – 23Gray – 12, 77Grutters – 45Hammami – 28, 41Hamza – 88, 89Hase – 74Hawrelechko – 54Hirasaki – 4, 22Hoeve – 39Holloway – 30, 54Horváth-Szabó – 16, 19, 64Huang – 50, 53, 54Huo – 73Hénaut – 58Ibrahim – 30Imamkhan – 39Impens – 7Inman – 35Ivory – 30Jacobs – 93Jamaluddin – 6Jennings – 29Joshi – 37, 44Kantzas – 55Karan – 47Kassim – 70Kharrat – 28, 67Kilpatrick – 8, 24, 26King – 37Kinoshita – 33Klein – 11Kokal – 76, 80, 81Korai – 33Korpany – 30Kumagai – 15Kuramae – 33Kvamme – 5Kvostichenko – 63Labrador – 65Laer – 7Lager – 14Lam – 37Langevin – 20Lara – 72Larter – 14, 83Leal – 62Lindeloff – 6Lindemuth – 23Little – 40Long – 88, 89Magri – 56Maham – 3Mansoori – 70Marble – 78Marques – 24Marsh – 78Marshall – 11Masliyah – 16, 19, 64, 87, 92McCaffrey – 12McFadden – 44Mehrotra – 27Menechini – 62Miller – 22Mochida – 33Moran – 75Morrow – 43Muhammad – 28, 41, 44, 73Mulder – 39Mullins – 9Munhall – 52Munsterman – 39Musiał – 92Nathanson – 90Nesbitt – 40Newberry – 69Ng – 73Nighswander – 71Nolte – 68Oliveira – 21, 21Panariti – 2Paso – 31Paul – 40Pedersen – 6Pereira – 34, 59, 65Peña – 22Pierre – 58Poindexter – 78Pole – 46Poteau – 20Pérez – 66Quiñones-Cisneros – 5Radke – 17Ranaudo – 34Ratulowski – 41Rispler – 53Rodgers – 11Rogalska – 86Rogalski – 56, 86Ross – 71Rudy – 37Saito – 60Salmon – 35Sarma – 50Sato – 60Schmidt – 5Scott – 35Seidl – 61, 62Shaw – 3, 94, 96Sheremata – 12Sheu – 66Silva – 61Singh – 90Sirota – 13Sjöblom – 24Smuk – 71Solimando – 86Stanford – 11Stark – 84Stenby – 5Sullivan – 24Svrcek – 46, 51Sztukowski – 82Szymczyk – 68Takanohashi – 60Tanaka – 15, 60Taylor – 45, 73Teixeira – 61Thomason – 90Ting – 4Toma – 30Ubbels – 48Utech – 42Valenzuela – 72Vancauwenberghe – 93Vandevoorde – 7Wang – 40, 43, 49, 55Watkinson – 38, 95Wattana – 10Weispfennig – 29Wen – 55Wu – 85Xie – 47Xu – 36, 87Yang – 26, 89, 91Yarranton – 19, 46, 51, 82Yazawa – 50Yen – 10Zaki – 24Zeifert – 72Zhang – 3, 43, 87, 94, 96Zhao – 79, 96Zorgani – 70Zougari – 28, 41