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SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference
August 31–September 4, 2020
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Field Case 1 Gas Injection
A Case Study of SACROC CO2 Flooding in Marginal Pay Regions: Improving Asset Performance
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200460-MS
A Methodological Workflow for Assessment and Design of a Huff-N-Puff Hydrocarbon Gas Injection Pilot Test as an EOR Technique for Eagle Ford Shale Oil Reservoirs
Amanda Baldwin; Leo Lasecki; David Mohrbacher; Lee Porter; Triffon Tatarin; Brian Nicoud; Grant Taylor; Jose Zaghloul; Basar Basbug; Tuba Firincioglu; Reza Barati Ghahfarokhi
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200415-MS
Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site HFTS Phase-2 EOR Pilot: Huff-and-Puff Pilot in the Permian-Midland Basin
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200468-MS
Unconventional Session 1 Gas Injection Pilot Tests
Evaluation of Eagle Ford Cyclic Gas Injection EOR: Field Results and Economics
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200427-MS
Managing Gas-Injection-Induced Excessive Water Production in Tight Oil Reservoirs by Optimizing Operational Constraints
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200448-MS
Impact of Well Shut-in After Hydraulic-Fracture Treatments on Productivity and Recovery in Shale Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200395-MS
Gas Injection 1 Foam Applications
Successful Field Implementation of CO2-Foam Injection for Conformance Enhancement in the EVGSAU Field in the Permian Basin
Amit Katiyar; Armin Hassanzadeh; Pramod Patil; Michael Hand; Alejandro Perozo; Doug Pecore; Hosein Kalaei; Quoc Nguyen
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200327-MS
Evaluation of an Amphoteric Surfactant for CO2 Foam Applications: A Comparative Study
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200315-MS
A Novel EOR Technique for the Attic Oil in Dipping Faulted Reservoirs by Utilizing Gas Oil Countercurrent and Water Flooding Assistance
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200351-MS
Waterflooding 1Flood Management
Fundamental Investigation of Auto-Emulsification of Water in Crude Oil: An Interfacial Phenomenon and its Pertinence for Low Salinity EOR
Duboué Jennifer; Bourrel Maurice; Dusautoir Théo; Santanach Carreras Enric; Klimenko Alexandra; Agenet Nicolas; Passade-Boupat Nicolas; Lequeux François
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200357-MS
Impact of EOR Chemicals on Oil-Water Separation Processes, from Laboratory Scale to Flow Loop Scale
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200455-MS
Containment of Water-Injection-Induced Fractures: The Role of Heat Conduction and Thermal Stresses
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200400-MS
Reservoir Characterization 1 Modeling and Tracers
Application of Tracer Based Workflow for Calibrating Reservoir Heterogeneity
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200374-MS
A 1D Analytical Solution to Determine Residual Oil Saturations from Single-well Chemical Tracer Test
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200420-MS
Improving Polymerflood Performance Via Streamline-Based Rate Optimization: Mangala Field, India
Hongquan Chen; Jaeyoung Park; Akhil Datta-Gupta; Sunit Shekhar; Kavish Grover; Joyjit Das; Vivek Shankar; M. Suresh Kumar; Ashish Chitale
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200388-MS
Field Case 2 Foams
Successful Foams EOR Field Pilot in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir by the Injection of the Foaming Agent Dispersed in the Gas Stream
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200377-MS
CO2 Foam Pilot in a West Texas Field: Design, Operation and Results
Mohammad Mirzaei; Deepanshu Kumar; Dwight Turner; Austin Shock; Derek Andel; David Hampton; Troy E. Knight; Amit Katiyar; Pramod D. Patil; Peter Rozowski; Quoc P. Nguyen
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200371-MS
CO2 Foam Field Pilot Design and Initial Results
Zachary Paul Alcorn; Tore Føyen; Leilei Zhang; Metin Karakas; Sibani Lisa Biswal; George Hirasaki; Arne Graue
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200450-MS
Unconventional Session 2 Gas Injection Modeling
Compositional Simulation of Cyclic Gas Injection in Liquid-Rich Shale Reservoirs Using Existing Simulators with a Framework for Incorporating Nanopores
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200342-MS
A Simulation Case Study of Gas Injection Pilot in Eagle Ford
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200430-MS
Production Optimization of the CO2 Huff-N-Puff Process in an Unconventional Reservoir Using a Machine Learning Based Proxy
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200360-MS
Chemical 1 Polymer
X-Ray CT Investigation of Displacement Mechanisms for Heavy Oil Recovery by Low Concentration HPAM Polymers
Arne Skauge; Behruz Shaker Shiran; Per Arne Ormehaug; Enric Santanach Carreras; Alexandra Klimenko; David Levitt
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200461-MS
Polymer Chemical Structure and its Impact on EOR Performance
Alan Beteta; Leena Nurmi; Louis Rosati; Sirkku Hanski; Katherine McIver; Kenneth Sorbie; Susanna Toivonen
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200441-MS
Novel Technologies 1
Determination of Infill Drilling Time Window Based on Depletion-Induced Stress Evolution of Shale Reservoirs with Complex Natural Fractures
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200330-MS
Thermo-Sensitive Nanogels for Targeted Tracer Release in Push and Pull Operations
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200446-MS
The Theory Exploration and Practice Research of a Novel Particle Type Microgel Flooding Technology
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200426-MS
Gas Injection 2 Miscible Applications
Assessment of Miscible WAG Injection Performance in a Giant Carbonate Reservoir using Analytical and Numerical Approaches
Jose Sergio de Araujo Cavalcante Filho; Vinicius Luis Santos Silva; Jorge Oscar de Sant'Anna Pizarro
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200333-MS
Miscible Gas EOR in a Supergiant Oil Rim Reservoir
Artem Penigin; Patrick McGuire; Nikolay Glavnov; Maya Vershinina; Iskander Mukhametzyanov; Ilnar Garipov
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200308-MS
Investigation of Permeability Impairment Due to Asphaltene Precipitation During Gas Injection EOR in a Major GoM Field
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200429-MS
Field Case 3 Special Cases
Field Test of Nitrogen Injectivity as a Method to Reduce the Uncertainties for the Miscible WAG Project
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200386-MS
Instow a Full Field, Multi-Patterned Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flood – Analyses and Comparison of Phases 1 and 2
Malcolm J. Pitts; Elio Dean; Kon Wyatt; Elii Skeans; Dalbir Deo; Angela Galipeault; Dallas Mohagen; Colby Humphry
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200409-MS
EOR Screening Including Technical, Operational, Environmental and Economic Factors Reveals Practical EOR Potential Offshore on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
P. Craig Smalley; Ann H. Muggeridge; Sølvi S. Amundrud; Mariann Dalland; Ole S. Helvig; Eli J. Høgnesen; Per Valvatne; Arvid Østhus
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200376-MS
Unconventional Session 3 EOR Studies
Use of In-Situ CO2 Generation in Liquid-Rich Shale
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200383-MS
The Effect of Phase Distribution on Imbibition Mechanisms for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200431-MS
In-Situ Generation and Propagation of a Nanocellulose Reinforced CO2 Foam in Tight Formation Fractures for Conformance Control
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200336-MS
Chemical 2 Polymer
Mobility Changes Evaluation of a Polymer Solution at Reservoir Conditions, Polymer Flood Pilot Test Performed in an Extra Heavy Oil Reservoir. Orinoco Oil Belt, Venezuela
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200354-MS
Comparison of Surfactant-Polymer and Polymer Flooding in a High Temperature Sandstone Reservoir
Agus Masduki; Muhammad Syafwan; Bambang Nursyahid; Andrew Armpriester; Robert Dean; Varadarajan Dwarakanath; Taimur Malik; Dwight Meaux; Will Slaughter; Sophany Thach
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200403-MS
Novel Technologies 2
A Nanoparticle Assisted CO2 Huff-N-Puff Field Test in the Eagle Ford Shale
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200375-MS
Selection of Nanomaterials as Emulsion Stabilizers in Alkali-Polymer EOR of High-TAN Number Oil
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200411-MS
Insights into Field Application of EOR Techniques from Modeling of Tight Reservoirs with Complex High-Density Fracture Network
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200345-MS
Gas Injection 3 Fundamentals and Modeling
Measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure: A State of the Art Review
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200462-MS
Prediction of CO2 Minimum Miscibility Pressure MMP Using Machine Learning Techniques
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200326-MS
Measurements of Three-Phase Relative Permeability as a Function of Fluid Composition
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200438-MS
Field Case 4 Polymer
Scleroglucan Polymer Injectivity Test Results in the Adena Oilfield
Farag Muhammed; Elio Dean; Malcolm Pitts; Kon Wyatt; Briana Kozlowicz; Malhar Khambete; Tryg Jensen; Eric Sumner; Charles Ray
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200309-MS
Associated Polymer ASP Flooding Scheme Optimization Design and Field Test after Polymer Flooding in Daqing Oilfield
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200443-MS
A Successful Polymer Pilot of 18%Stooip Drives a Fast Sweet-Spot Based 80-Injectors Modular Polymer Expansion
Dr Juan-E. Juri; Florencia Schein; Ana Ruiz; Viviana Serrano; Paula Guillen; Mercedes Thill; Lucas Kichick; Victor De Miranda; Walter Mac Donald; Emilio Figueroa; Nestor Robina; Maximiliano Vera; Emilio Figueroa; Fernando Di Pauly; Walter Rojas; Natalia Ojeda; Ariel Lucero; Pablo Alonso; Fernando Funes; Hector Campos
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200355-MS
Unconventional Session 4 Gas Injection Lab Studies
Insight Gained From Experimental Gas-Cycling Eor in the Unconventional Montney and Duvernay Formations
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200359-MS
Comprehensive Experimental Study of Huff-n-Puff Enhanced Oil Recovey in Eagle Ford: Key Parameters and Recovery Mechanism
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200436-MS
Lab Investigation of EOR Potential for a Stack Pilot
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200322-MS
Chemical 3 Polymer
Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: First High Salinity Polymer Injection Deployment in a Sour Sandstone Heavy Oil Reservoir
Mohammed Taha Al-Murayri; Deema Alrukaibi; Dawood Sulaiman Kamal; Abdullah Abdul-Karim Al-Rabah; Abrahim Abdelgadir Hassan; Faisal Qureshi; Mojdeh Delshad; Jonathan Driver; Zhitao Li; Scott Badham; Chris Bouma; Ellen Zijlstra
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200317-MS
Scleroglucan Polymer Stability: Thermal, Chemical, and Microbial
Briana Kozlowicz; Tryg Jensen; Malhar Khambete; Mohannad J. Kadhum; Frøydis Kirsti Garshol; Eilen Arctander Vik; Renata Tomczak-Wandzel; Diego A. Wever; Bart P. Lomans; Charles Ray
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200335-MS
Viscous Heavy 1 Insitu Combustion
Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer ASP Flooding Field Test Using Horizontal Wells: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200323-MS
Catalytic Impact of Clays During In-Situ Combustion
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200381-MS
Reservoir Management 1 Planning & Optimization
Planning for Large Scale ASP Flood Implementation in Mangala Oil Field
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200445-MS
Proxy Based Assisted History Matching and Well Spacing Optimization in Shale Gas Development of a Real Field Case
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200466-MS
Improving Recovery in the Yates Field Using Dynamic Feedback Loop based on Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence
Dirk De Bruyker; Robert Kosut; Raul Valdez; Seth Haymes; Lanny Schoeling; Miroslav Petro; Douglas Weiner; Alfred Joseph; Jun Kyu Lee; Abbas Emami-Naeini; Jon Ebert; Sarbajit Ghosal
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200434-MS
Field Case 5 Chemical
The Past, Present, and Future of Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods in Yates Field Unit
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200347-MS
A Comparison Simulation Study of GDWS-AGD EOR Process Performance Using CO2/APG Alternatives in South Rumaila Oil Field, Iraq
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200418-MS
Review of Canadian Field Cases of Chemical Floods with Associative Polymer
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200439-MS
Unconventional Session 5 EOR Studies -Visualization
Feasibility Study of Gas Injection in Low Permeability Reservoirs of Changqing Oilfield
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200469-MS
Surfactant in Fracturing Fluid: Enhancing Imbibition Oil Recovery or Blocking Pore Throats?
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200470-MS
Field Gas Huff-n-Puff for Improving Oil Recovery from Eagle Ford Shale Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200471-MS
Chemical 4 Polymer
Numerical Simulation of Crossed-Linked Polymer Injection in Dina Cretaceous Field: A Real Field Case Study
Mehdi Izadi; Jaime Alberto Jimenez; Jose Francisco Zapata; Andres Felipe Castillo; John Pinto; Sebastian Vicente
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200378-MS
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Polymer Viscoelasticity on Residual Saturation of Low Viscosity Oils
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200414-MS
Use of Dynamic Pore Network Modeling to Improve Our Understanding of Experimental Observations in Viscous Oil Displacement by Polymers
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200387-MS
Viscous Heavy 2 Waterflooding/ASP and SAGD
Research and Application of Horizontal Well Infill SAGD Development Technology for Super Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200389-MS
New Insights into the Interfacial Phenomena during Miscible Displacement by Hydrocarbon Solvents and CO2 in Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200456-MS
Bhagyam ASP Pilot: Successful Formulation Development to Pilot Design and Planning
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200408-MS
Reservoir Management 2 Operating and Improvements
Improving CO2 Vertical Sweep Efficiency in Tinsley Field with Dedicated Injectors
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200398-MS
Economic Assessment of Strategies for CO2-EOR and Storage in Brownfield Residual Oil Zones: A Case Study from the Seminole San Andres Unit
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200363-MS
Experimental Investigation of Polymer Induced Fouling of Heater Tubes in the First-Ever Polymer Flood Pilot on Alaska North Slope
Anshul Dhaliwal; Yin Zhang; Abhijit Dandekar; Samson Ning; John Barnes; Reid Edwards; Walbert Schulpen; David P. Cercone; Jared P. Ciferno
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200463-MS
Integration of Capacitance Resistance Model with Reservoir Simulation
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200332-MS
Novel 3 CO2 and Sequestration
The CO2 Foam Stability Enhancement with Switchable Surfactant and Modified Silica Nanoparticles
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200435-MS
A Novel Huff-n-Puff Technology for Chemically Shrinking Swelling Clays to Increase Matrix Permeability and Oil Production
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200458-MS
Joint Optimization of Well Completions and Controls for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200316-MS
Unconventional Session 6 EOR Studies -Visualization
Consistent and Efficient Representation of Diffusive Mass Transfer in Fractured Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200453-MS
Gas EOR Processes in Tight Unconventionals
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200396-MS
Chemical 5 Polymer
Transport of Biopolymer Scleroglucan in Cores at HTHS Conditions
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200404-MS
Offshore Polymer EOR Injection Philosophies, Constrains and Solutions
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200368-MS
Polymer Flooding - Towards a Better Control of Polymer Mechanical Degradation at the Near Wellbore
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200373-MS
Reservoir Characterization 2 Fluid and Rock Properties
Measurement of Oil-Gas Diffusivity at Reservoir Conditions for Huff-n-Puff EOR in Shales
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200306-MS
Effect of Biodegradation on CO2 Minimum Miscibility Pressure for the Frio Reservoir Fluids
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200465-MS
A Probabilistic View of EOR Lab Experiments: An Example of Low Salinity Flooding
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200321-MS
Waterflooding 2 Wettability and Low Salinity
Artificial Diagenesis of Carbonates: Temperature Dependent Inorganic and Organic Modifications in Reservoir Mimetic Fluids
Ashit Rao; Saravana Kumar; Carla Annink; Duy Le-Anh; Mohammed B. Alotaibi; Subhash C. Ayirala; Igor Siretanu; Michel Duits; Frieder Mugele; Ali A. Yousef
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200331-MS
Crude Oil/Brine/Rock Interactions during SmartWater Flooding in Carbonates: Novel Surface Forces Apparatus Measurements at Reservoir Conditions
Kai Kristiansen; Roberto C Andresen Eguiluz; Szu-Ying Chen; Subhash C Ayirala; Mohammed B Alotaibi; Ali A Yousef; Martin Moskovits; James R Boles; Jacob N Israelachvili
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200329-MS
Novel Insights into Low Salinity Water Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery in Sandstone: The Role of Calcite
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200444-MS
Unconventional Session 7 Novel Unconventional Studies
Applications of Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis in Huff-n-Puff Gas EOR for Unconventional Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200425-MS
Two-Phase Flash for Tight Porous Media by Minimization of the Helmholtz Free Energy
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200407-MS
Thermally Induced Microfractures and Improved Recovery from Shale
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200457-MS
Unconventional Session 8 Gas Injection EOR
Quantifying Oil-Recovery Mechanisms During Natural-Gas Huff n Puff Experiments on Ultratight Core Plugs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200341-MS
A Reconstructed Core-Scale Model of the Lower Eagle Ford Shale Through FIB-SEM, SEM-EDS, and Microscopy for Gas Huff-n-Puff Simulation
Sherifa Cudjoe; Qinwen Fu; Jyung-Syung Tsau; Reza Barati; Robert Goldstein; Brian Nicoud; Amanda Baldwin; Jose Zaghloul; David Mohrbacher
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200379-MS
Visualization the Surfactant Imbibition at Pore Scale by Using of Fractured Micromodels
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200349-MS
Chemical 6 Surfactant
Grain-Scale Modeling of Polymer-driven Fracture Initiation and Wellbore Injectivity
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200412-MS
Evaluation of Seawater Based Surfactant Polymer Formulation in a Single Well Test Offshore
Robert R. Harris; Subashini Paramanathan; Sara-Jane Dickson; Ron C. Bouwmeester; Jeffrey G. Southwick; Efraim Keijzer; Carl H. van Rijn; Diederik W. Batenburg
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200352-MS
Ethanolamine as Alkali for Alkali Surfactant Polymer Flooding - Development of a Low-Complexity Field Implementation Concept
Jeffrey Southwick; Mark Brewer; Diederik van Batenburg; Sebastiaan Pieterse; Ron Bouwmeester; Dawood Mahruqi; Abdullah Alkindi; Rifaat Mjeni
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200432-MS
Reservoir Characterization 3 Fluid and Rock Properties
QEMSCAN Assisted Interpretation of Imbibition Capillary Pressure for Multi-Porosity Carbonate Rocks
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200367-MS
Phase Behavior and Minimum Miscibility Pressure of Confined Fluids in Organic Nanopores
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200449-MS
Analyzing the Dynamics of Mineral Dissolution During Acid Fracturing by Pore–Scale Modeling of Acid–Rock Interaction
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200406-MS
Waterflooding 3 Wettability and Low Salinity
An Investigation into Fluid-Fluid Interaction Phenomenon During Low Salinity Waterflooding using a Reservoir-on-a-Chip Microfluidics Model
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200380-MS
Simulation of Advanced Waterflooding in Carbonates Using a Surface Complexation-Based Multiphase Transport Model
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200366-MS
An Advanced Compositional Analysis of Crude Oil-Brine Interface and the Effect of Involving Interactions on the Performance of Low Salinity Water Injection
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200451-MS
Alternate 1 - Chemicals Surfactant
Field Trial for Wettability Alteration Using Surfactants: Formulation Development In Laboratory to the Implementation and Production Monitoring in an Offshore Reservoir
Neeraj Rohilla; Amit Katiyar; Pete M. Rozowski; Adrianno Gentilucci; Pramod D. Patil; Mayur Pal; Prabhat Saxena
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200358-MS
Characterization of Carboxylate Surfactant Retention in High Temperature, Hard Brine Sandstone Reservoirs
Gayani Pinnawala; Andrew Davidson; Isbell Taylor; Hyuntae Yang; Will Slaughter; Do Hoon Kim; Taimur Malik; Varadarajan Dwarakanath
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200423-MS
Unconventional Session 9 Chemical EOR Lab Studies
Development of Surfactant Formulation for Harsh Environment
Gayani Pinnawala; Nabijan Nizamidin; Kerry Spilker; Harold Linnemeyer; Taimur Malik; Varadarajan Dwarakanath
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200394-MS
Enhanced Oil Recovery for Liquid-Rich Unconventional Shale Reservoirs Using Low-Salinity Surfactant and Wettability Altering Dilute Surfactants
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200346-MS
Molecular Signatures of Solvent Injection in Shale Organic Nanopores
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200307-MS
Chemical 7 Surfactant
Practical Chemical Formulation Design – Time to Break Away from Micellar Polymer Floods, Again
Elio Dean; Malcolm Pitts; Kon Wyatt; Dean James; Kathryn Mills; Mohammed Al-Murayri; Anfal Al-Kharji
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200385-MS
Designing a Robust ASP Formulation for The Kuparuk Field
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200424-MS
Wettability Altering Surfactants for High Temperature Tight Carbonate Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200348-MS
Conformance 1 Gels + nano Particles
Thermally Activated Particles Injection for Deep Conformance Control to Improve Oil Recovery in an Argentina Mature Waterflooded Reservoir: Cerro Dragon Field. Design, Field Implementation and Results
Alberto Iuliano; Javier E. Gómez; Christian R. Martínez; Laura C. Alonso; Mahdi Kazempour; Mojtaba Kiani; Daniela Alzate; Praveen Singh; Gary Jerauld
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200464-MS
Chemical EOR While Fracturing: An Experimental Study for Evaluating Nanoparticle Additives
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200382-MS
Novel 4 Modeling New Concepts
Predictive Modeling of Relative Permeability using a Generalized Equation-of-State
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200410-MS
Measurement of Transport Properties and Densities of Dimethyl Ether DME and Water/Brine Mixtures
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200314-MS
Optimizing Tight Oil Assets on Water Flood Utilizing Polymer Gel Technology; A Cost-Effective Approach with High Rate of Success
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200401-MS
Unconventional Session 10 Chemical EOR
Simulation and Thermodynamic Modeling of Solvent EOR and Bitumen Recovery in Organic-Rich Tight Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200362-MS
Geochemical Modeling of Wormhole Propagation During Carbonate Acidizing with Consideration of Fractures
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200319-MS
Chemical 8 Surfactant
Improvements on Modelling Wettability Alteration by Engineered Water Injection: Geochemical Pore-Scale Approach
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200361-MS
A Single-Parameter Approach for Upscaling Relative Permeabilities for Viscous Oil Simulations
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200421-MS
Pilot Test of Surfactant-Polymer Flood with Mixtures of Anionic-Cationic Surfactants for High Temperature Low Permeability Sandstone Reservoir
Yingcheng Li; Weidong Zhang; Zhiqin Shen; Jun Jin; Zhiqing Su; Feng Yao; Xiaoling Yu; Xinning Bao; Xiujuan He; Xinyue Wu; Hui Zhang; Ou Sha
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200417-MS
Conformance 2 Gels
Development of Swelling-Rate Controllable Particle Gels to Control the Conformance of CO2 Flooding
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200339-MS
Sizing Gelant Treatment for Conformance Control in Hydraulically-Fractured Horizontal Wells
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200338-MS
Validation and Benchmarking of an Inorganic Aluminium-Carbamide Gel System for in-Depth and Near Wellbore Conformance Control
Soujatya Mukherjee; Kjetil Skrettingland; Arne Stavland; Liubov Altunina; Sabrina Reimann; Meindert Dillen; Berit Robøle
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200416-MS
Various IOR Applications
A Critical Review of Capillary Number and its Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200419-MS
Pulser Model: Updated Framework and Lessons Learned from Applications in Forecasting CO2 Flood Performance
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200390-MS
A Data-Driven Approach to Forecasting Production with Applications to Multiple Shale Plays
Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/200365-MS
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