Vol. 14 No. 2 (2024)
The Recent decisions taken by the government of the United States are changing dramatically the geopolitics of the energy sector. The cancellation of permits for Chevron to produce in Venezuela, the tariffs announced on crude oils produced by countries like Mexico and Canada, and the tariffs on imports from China may have significant impact on prices and trade flows of crude oil around the world, specifically in the case of heavy crude oils. This situation will catalyze the search for technologies to improve the efficiency of crude oil production and a rearrangement of crude oil markets may appear in the short term.
In this issue of CT&F (Vol. 14 No. 2), four papers are related to innovative technologies to improve enhance oil recovery by hybrid solvent-nanoparticles-cyclic steam injection, control of operations of hybrid foam – cyclic steam injection, avoid asphaltenes precipitation by nanoparticles injection in porous media, and use permeability modifiers to control water production.
One article is related to characterization of asphaltenes by the characterization of products of their mild oxidation. Other paper discusses the use of V-nets to manage alarms of green hydrogen plants, and another manuscript is related to the evaluation of complex mixtures containing bio-oil – n-butanol – 2-ethyl hexyl nitrate as diesel fuel.
Luis Javier Hoyos
CT&F editor
Published:
2024-12-30
