This special issue is an extensive paper written by ASTM Crude Oil instructor Harry Giles. Also the author of a popular ASTM International manual, Crude Oil: Sampling, Analysis, and Evaluation, Giles is an internationally recognized scientist in crude oil analysis area.
Topics of this special issue span more than a century and a half of the history, discovery, and development of crude oil technology.
Sections of this special issue are devoted to what is general called the “crude assay” in the oil industry; these include the most commonly used test methods in the crude oil industry, such as gravity, sulfur, water and sediment, pour point, carbon residue, acid number, viscosity, salts, nitrogen, trace metals, vapor pressure, and asphaltenes.
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