Science

Oil, Gas and Water Gathering and Treatment:

• Researching physical/chemical properties of oil-water emulsions and oil;
• Technologies to strip out H2S from crude oil;
• Technologies to separate highly foaming oils;
• Oil Separation by Gathering and Treatment End Sections;
• Oil Dehydration and Desalting;
• Viscous and Ultraviscous Oil Gathering and Treatment;
• Ultraviscous Oil Thermal Deparaffinization;
• Oil Sludge Treatment and Disposal;
• Oil Gathering and Treatment System Optimization;
• Improving in-field pipelines and reservoir pressure maintenance systems;
• Gas Treatment to remove H2S and mercaptans;
• Hydrocarbon gas and gas condensate treatment and processing (sulfur removal/sweetening, gasoline recovery, dehydration and fractionation);
• Associated Gas Utilization;
• Flare Gas Utilization;
• Produced Water Treatment;
• Reducing light hydrocarbons losses including light ends recovery;
• Developing and validating Action plans for Environmental and Subsurface Protection as well as Process Flow Diagrams for Oil and Gas Fields Development.

Plant Processing of Oil and Gas:

• Hydrocarbon gases processing to produce aromatic hydrocarbons, methanol and synthetic oil;
• Deeper refining of crude hydrocarbons to produce fuel and petrochemicals;
• Hydro catalytic and gas catalytic processing of hydrocarbons fractions to produce motor fuels;
• Sulfur recovery, degassing and sulfur granulation;
• Water Treatment;
• Gas Emissions Purification;
• Process to remove sulfides from light hydrocarbons.