Methods of reducing heavy oil viscosity

Navid Mousivand¹ Alireza Gharavi²

1) Bachelor student of Petroleum engineering
2) Petroleum engineering graduate

Publication : 4th International Congress on Engineering, Technology and Applied Science - Auckland University of Technology(etas2019.com)
Abstract :
The increasing global demand to oil and its products, the decline in natural gas production from light oil reservoirs and the rise in oil prices in recent years has led to increasing attention to heavy oil reservoirs. The purpose of this paper is to seeking the approach of increasing revenues from oil sales and review the most economical methods and practical ways to reduce oil viscosity in heavy oil reservoirs. The purpose of this paper is to explain and compare some of the most common ways to reduce heavy oil viscosity.
Keywords : Heavy oil SAGD steam flooding Viscosity