The 6th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behaviour and Fouling

Program:

Sunday, June 19
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
18:00 - 21:00 (PM)			Registration
19:00 - 21:00 (PM)			Reception

Monday, June 20
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
09:00 - 14:10	Macromolecules Simon Andersen*
14:35 - 17:40		Heavy Oil Utilisation Alain Quignard*

Tuesday, June 21
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
08:30 - 11:35	Waxes George Broze*
13:45 - 17:15		Emulsion Hans Oschmann*
18:00 -			Boat Tour / Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 22
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
08:30 - 12:00	Thermodynamics Carlos Lira-Galeana*
14:10 - 17:15		Fouling downstream Scott Stomierowski*

Thursday, June 23
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
08:30 -12:00	Fouling upstream Ahmed Hammami*
12:00 -		Lunch
		Depature

* Session organiser

Sunday, June 19,
Registration & Reception
Time	Authors	Title
18:00		Registration
19:00		Reception

Monday, June 20,
Characterization of Petroleum Macromolecules
Time	Authors	Title
08:30 - 09:00		Welcome
09:00 - 09:40	P. K. Kilpatrick and Keith L. Gawrys*	The Use of Small Angle Neutron Scattering in the Study of Asphaltene Aggregation
09:40 - 10:05	Ryan P. Rodgers, Jeremiah M. Purcell, Tanner M. Schaub and Alan G. Marshal	First Experimental Evidence for Buckybowls in Nature: Field Desorption and Atmospheric Pressure PhotoIonization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry of the Aromatic Fraction of Crude Oil
10:05 - 10:30	Benjamin Brocart, C. Hurtevent and J-L Volle, B. Escoffier	ANALYTICAL DETECTION OF ARN-TYPE NAPHTHENIC ACIDS IN CRUDES
10:30 - 10:50		Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15	K. K. (Adry) Bissada, Ewa B. Szymczyk, David G. Nolte and L. M. Darnell	IMPROVED ASPHALTENE & PARAFFIN SEPARATIONS AND QUANTIFICATION FOR CRUDE-OIL & BITUMEN CHARACTERIZATION
11:15 - 11:40	Juan Murgich	MOLECULAR MECHANICS STUDY OF THE SELECTIVITY IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SOME TYPICAL RESINS AND ASPHALTENES
11:40 - 12:05	Ryuzo Tanaka, Shinya Sato, Toshimasa Takanohashi and Haruo Kumagai	Molecular Structure and Aggregation Dynamics of Asphaltene in Petroleum Vacuum Residue and Their Impact on Its Reactivities
12:05 - 13:00		Lunch
13:00 - 13:45		Posters
13:45 - 14:10	William C. McCaffrey, Murray R. Gray, Heather D. Dettman, Jeffrey M. Sheremata	QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURAL INFORMATION OF RESIDUE FRACTIONS FROM MOLECULAR REPRESENTATIONS
14:10 - 14:35	Felaniaina Rakotondradany, Hicham Fenniri and Murray R. Gray	Synthesis and PROPERTIES of model compounds for bitumen residue

Heavy Oil Utilisation
Time	Authors	Title
14:35 - 15:15	Bill Power	The Athabasca Oil Sands Project: The Commercial Application of Innovations in Technology
15:15 - 15:40	Y. Xu, T. Dabros, and Hassan Hamza	A Study on Foaming Mechanism in Bitumen Froth Treatment Tailings
15:40 - 16:00		Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:25	Dettman H., Salmon S., Ross A. and Patmore D.	UPGRADING OF HEAVY CRUDES AND BITUMEN FROM DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL SOURCES – COMPARISON OF ASPHALTENES ISOLATED BEFORE AND AFTER THERMAL TREATMENT
16:25 - 16:50	Irv Wiehe	Coking of Petroleum Resids: Limitations and Potential
16:50 - 17:15	K. Le Lannic and I. Guibard	Kinetic Modeling of Residue Hydrodesulfurization
17:15 - 17:40	Buron H., Bru P.	New ASTM method for heavy fuel oil stability
		End of Day

Tuesday, June 21
Wax thermodynamics and deposition
Time	Authors	Title
08:30 - 09:10	Hans Petter Rønningsen	What has really been achieved in understanding of waxy crude behavior the last four decades, and what are the future needs?
09:10 - 09:35	Geiza E. Oliveira, Cláudia. R. E. Mansur, Renata V. Pires, Leonardo B. Passos, Dellyo R. S. Alvares, Gaspar González and Elizabete F. Lucas	THE EFFECT OF ASPHALTENES, NAPHTHENIC ACIDS AND POLYMERIC INHIBITORS ON THE POUR POINT OF PARAFFINS SOLUTIONS
09:35 - 10:00	Laine V., Petitjean D., Bouroukba M., Dirand M., Faure D. and Quillet S.	Appearance conditions of the waxes amorphous phase and its influence on physical properties
10:00 - 10:20		Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:45	Sandeep Todi and Milind D. Deo	Experimental and Modeling Studies of Wax Deposition in Crude Oil Carrying Pipelines
10:45 - 11:10	Klaus Weispfennig and G. Dale Wesson	Wax Deposition Processes using Small Benchtop Deposition Devices- A Computational Approach
11:10 - 11:35	E.E. Zorgani, H.A. Mansoori, W.S. Kassim	Influence of Operating Conditions on Crude Oil Transportation
11:35 - 12:00	Zainun Yusof, Duhita Sharma, Chung Chie Min.	GEL STRENGTH ANALYSIS UTILISING TEST FLOW LOOP FOR HIGH POUR POINT CRUDE
12:00 - 13:00		Lunch
13:00 - 13:45		Posters

Chemistry and Physics of Petroleum-Water emulsions
Time	Authors	Title
13:45 - 14:25	Colin Smith, Mike Turner	"Handling and management of calcium naphthenate and soap generation"
14:25 - 14:50	S. Poteau, J-F. Argillier, D. Langevin	Dynamic Dilational Properties of Oil/Water Interfacial Films Versus Emulsion Stability: Influence of pH, Asphaltenes and Other Surface Active Fractions from Heavy Crude Oils
14:50 - 15:15	A.G.Shepherd, R.E.Westacott, K.Sorbie, M.Turner, C.Smith	Naphthenate Soap Formation Analysis Under Laboratory Conditions
15:15 - 15:35		Coffee Break
15:35 - 16:00	Mark Grutters, Francois Gelin, Peter Cornelisse, Sheila Dubey	“Asphaltene induced water-in-oil emulsions”: false or true?
16:00 - 16:25	Sen J. Ubbels and Mike Turnerl	DIAGNOSING AND PREVENTING NAPHTHENATE STABILISED EMULSIONS AND NAPHTHENATE DEPOSITS DURING CRUDE OIL PROCESSING
16:25 - 16:50	Kevin Moran	Dilational Elasticity of Emulsified Bitumen Droplet Surfaces
16:50 - 17:15	Noik C., Dalmazzone C. Dewattines C.	Efficiency enhancement of polyols derivatives surfactants for oil and water phase separation
18:00		Boat Tour and Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 22
Thermodynamics of Heavy Oils and Asphaltenes
Time	Authors	Title
08:30 - 09:10	Jill Buckley	Progress toward Thermodynamic Models of Asphaltene Solubility
09:10 - 09:35	Impens N., Dekelver S., Vermaercke P., Bruggeman M., Fonteyne A., Vos L., Sneyers L, Van Laer J.	Neutron activation analysis of unstable bitumen-salt-solvent mixtures.
09:35 - 10:00	Syunyaev R.Z., Balabin R.M.	FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES OF OIL CONDUCTIVITY AT HIGH PRESSURES
10:00 - 10:25	P. Peczak, E. B. Sirota, and M. Sowlay	ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION AND LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION: A STATISTICAL-THERMODYNAMIC MODEL AND EXPERIMENT
10:25 - 10:45		Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:10	Sriram Satya, Milind D Deo and Francis V Hanson	Estimation of Crude Oil Fraction PROPERTIES Using Near Infrared spectra and multivariate statistics
11:10 - 11:35	Correra S. and Merino-Garcia D.	Estimation of Oil Solubility Parameter from Viscosity Measurements
11:35 - 12:00	M.A. Fahim and S.I. Andersen	Modelling asphaltene precipitation using CPA
12:00 - 12:25	Kurt A. G. Schmidt, Sergio E. Quiñones-Cisneros, Arne O. Fredheim and Bjørn Kvamme	f-Theory VISCOSITY MODELLING OF RESERVOIR FLUIDS
12:25 -13:25		Lunch
13:25 - 14:10		Posters

Mechanisms and Mitigation of Fouling in Refining and Upgrading
Time	Authors	Title
14:10 - 14:50	Paul Watkinson	Deposition from Crude Oils in Heat Exchangers
14:50 - 15:15	Andre Vanhove, David Owen	Chemical Fouling Control Programme Design for Refinery Preheat Exchangers
15:15 - 15:40	Don Mulder, Fred Hoeve, Sacha Imamkhan, Wim Bond, Frans van den Berg, George Anderson, Joan Majoor, Eric van der Zijden and Hans Wijnbelt	EMbaffle Technology & Optimum Heat Exchanger Cleaning Cycles in crude oil heat exchanger trains
15:40 - 16:00		Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20	Artur W. Krueger and Francois Pouponnot	“new applications of heat exchanger tube inserts - Examples of succesful applications in Vacuum distillation units, air coolers, U-tubes, and Reboiler applications”
16:25 - 16:50	Thomas J. Falkler and Joseph L. Stark.	Correlating Furnace Fouling with Asphaltene Stability
16:50 - 17:15	John M. Nesta and Christopher A. Bennett	Fouling Mitigation by design

Thursday, June 23
Mechanisms and Mitigation of Fouling in Production
Time	Authors	Title
08:30 - 09:10	Harvey Yarranton	Questionable characters - issues in characterizing asphaltenes and other heavy fraction components
09:10 - 09:35	Jefferson Creek, Doris Gonzalez, Jianxin Wang, Moin Muhammed, Walter Chapman, George Hirasaki and Jill Buckley	Effect of Synthetic Oil-Based Drilling Fluid Contamination on Asphaltene Stability
09:35 - 10:00	Pål V. Hemmingsen, Xiaoyun Li, Jean-Louis Peytavy and Johan Sjöblom	Hydrate Plugging Potential of Original and Modified Crude Oils
10:00 - 10:20		Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:45	Jamal B M Ibrahim, Kartina Ali, Wan Ata Wan Daud,Anthony Roy and Kulwant Singh	THERMO-CHEMICAL SOLUTION FOR REMOVAL OF ORGANIC SOLIDS DEPOSITS IN-AND-AROUND WELL BORE AND PRODUCTION TUBING
10:45 - 11:10	Luiz C.C. Marques, Jair B. Monteiro and Gaspar Gonzáles	A Flow Assurance Solution to the Asphaltenes Flocculation Problem in Light Crude Oils
11:10 - 11:35	Sylvain Verdier, Simon I. Andersen, Hervé Carrier, Jean-Luc Daridon, Honggang Zhou,	Precipitation caused by CO2 injection: experiments and modelling
11:35 - 12:00	Baldev S. Gill, Geoffrey F. Hewitt and Alexander Bismarck	Wetting behaviour of initially dry reservoir cores: The capillary rise technique.
12:00 - ??:00		Lunch
??:00		End of day