Highly paraffinic Vietnamese crudes characterized
- Petro Viet Nam Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam (VN)
Vietnamese crude oils, including crude from the Bach Ho (White Tiger) and Dai Hung (Big Bear) fields have high paraffin content. This high-paraffin content and other characteristics of the crude oils require them to be processed through conversion units after distillation to obtain maximum light-product production. Classification of the Vietnamese crude oils as high-paraffin content used the basis of statistical analyses of fundamental properties of 400 different types of Soviet Union crude oils. The statistical analyses classified crude oils below 1 wt % paraffin content as low-paraffin crudes, between 1 wt% and 7 wt% as medium-paraffin crudes, and greater than 7 wt% as high-paraffin crudes. Evaluations of Vietnamese crude oils are ongoing. From these evaluations, the author presents some general refining properties of Vietnamese crude oils, along with the basic assays of Viet Nam's Bach Ho (White Tiger) and Dai Hung( Big Bear) crude oils.
- OSTI ID:
- 7260777
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Vol. 87:45; ISSN 0030-1388
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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