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