Rheological Characterization of Crude Oil and Related Products / Flávio H Marchesini -- Optical Interrogation of Petroleum Asphaltenes: Myths and Reality / Igor N Evdokimov -- ESR Characterization of Organic Free Radicals in Crude Oil and By-Products / Marilene Turini Piccinato, Carmen Luisa Barbosa Guedes, Eduardo Di Mauro -- High-Field, Pulsed, and Double Resonance Studies of Crude Oils and their Derivatives / Marat Gafurov, M Volodin, T Biktagirov, G Mamin, S B Orlinskii -- NMR Spectroscopic Analysis in Characterization of Crude Oil and Related Products / Siavash Iravani -- NMR Spectroscopy in Bitumen Characterization / Catarina Varanda, Inês Portugal, Jorge Ribeiro, Carlos M Silva, Artur M S Silva -- Applications of Low Field Magnetic Resonance in Viscous Crude Oil/Water Property Determination / Jonathan L Bryan, Apostolos Kantzas -- Application of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to the Characterization of Petroleum / Patricia Araujo Pantoja, Juan López-Gejo, Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento, Galo Antonio Carrillo Le Roux -- Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy of Crude Oil and its Constituents / Johannes Kiefer, Stella Corsetti.