Cleaner Petroleum Production and Refining Technologies

Reduce environmental impacts across petroleum production, refining, and fuel use

Liquid fuel demand is projected to increase by more than 20% over the next three decades, yet petroleum remains the prime source of manmade carbon and methane greenhouse emissions. Cleaner Petroleum Production and Refining Technologies addresses this tension directly, detailing methods to produce and refine crude oils and gas into quality fuels while minimizing environmental impacts throughout the entire production-to-consumption chain.

This edited volume includes authoritative discussions of carbon capture and storage, fugitive methane emissions reduction, and technologies to reduce energy intensity and green house gas emissions for heavy oil production and oil sands operations. It examines refinery reconfiguration to convert carbon residuals into middle distillates and light olefins for petrochemical feed, gas-to-liquid processes including Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, and the use of renewable feedstock in hydrogen production.

Key topics include:

• Production and processing technology for oil and gas with specific focus on pollution minimization during production, processing, and fuel consumption
• Integration of refinery with petrochemical plant processes providing alternative pathways when demand for petroleum-based fuels declines
• Gas-to-liquid processes including Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to produce liquid fuels from syngas or CO2 for middle distillate production
• Deep conversion and desulfurization technologies alongside renewable feedstock applications for more sustainable hydrogen production in refineries
• Identification of prospects, issues, and gaps in the path toward more sustainable petroleum production, refining, and consumption

Cleaner Petroleum Production and Refining Technologies serves engineers, scientists, and managers in the petroleum production and refining industries, as well as researchers at government organizations and research centers. University faculty and students working in petroleum production and processing will also find this volume a substantive technical reference.

M. R. Riazi is a Professor and the Chair of Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. He received his academic degrees from Penn State University and held many academic and industry positions worldwide. He has published widely, including 9 books mainly in the areas of energy and environment and is the founding editor of IJOGCT as well as the Chair of Fuels & Petrochemicals Division (FPD) at the AIChE Annual Meetings. He received a Diploma of Honor from National (American) Petroleum Engineering Society for outstanding services to the petroleum industry and is a Fellow of AIChE as well as a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada (www.riazim.com).

H. W. Yarranton is a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He received his academic degrees from the University of Alberta and has held reservoir and production engineering positions in the oil industry. His research is focused on the phase behavior and properties of heavy oils and solvents, the fundamentals of water-in-oil emulsions, and oil sands extraction and froth treatment. He has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and was awarded the SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty.