SPE Production & Operations
Volume 21, Number 3, August 2006, p. 412

SPE-105396-PA

Author’s Reply to Discussion of A Practical Method for Anticipating Asphaltene Problems

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DOI  More information 10.2118/105396-PA http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/105396-PA

Citation

  • Buckley, J. 2006. Author’s Reply to Discussion of A Practical Method for Anticipating Asphaltene Problems. SPE Prod & Oper21 (3): 412. SPE-105396-PA.

     

This paper is the reply to SPE-104235-PA.

The authors appreciate Dr. Civan’s interest in our predictions of asphaltene-onset pressures.  It is interesting to see that well-established temperature correlations can fit our example predictions, but we would like to emphasize that the onset pressures in our Fig. 7 are predictions, not measured data.  Perhaps the temperature correlations should be used with the measured data (i.e., the onset solubility conditions at atmospheric pressure) from which predictions can be made for the onset of asphaltene instability at any temperature and pressure.

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