15th Annual Meeting of the

Rice University Consortium on Processes in Porous Media

Rice UniversityApril 26, 2011

Consortium Members

• Addax• Baker - Hughes• Champion • Chevron• Conoco Phillips• Core Labs*• Exxon Mobil• Kinder Morgan

• Marathon• Oil Chem*• PTS*• Rhodia• Schlumberger• Shell• Saudi Aramco• TIORCO• Total

* In-kind contributions

Faculty & Collaborators• George J. Hirasaki• Clarence A. Miller• Walter G. Chapman• Ken Cox• Lisa Biswal• Michael S. Wong• Rafael Verduzco• Kishore Mohanty (UT)• Gary Pope (UT)• Keith Johnston (UT)• Quoc Nguyen (UT)• Kamy Sepehrnoori (UT)• Francisco (Paco) Vargas (PI)

Staff

• Maura Puerto (retired Exxon)

• Olina Raney (PhD, Rice)

• Amir Amini (PhD, Rice)

• Anju Kurup (PhD, N. U. Singapore)

Current Ph.D. Students

• Mike Rauschhuber• Elton Yang• Robert Li• Jose Lopez• Neeraj Rohilla• Guangsheng Gu• Sumedh Warudkar• Sayantan Chatterjee• Kun Ma• Leyu Cui• Aparna Raju Sagi• Sai Panuganti• Hadi ShamsiJazeyi (2011)• Aarthi Muthuswamy (2011)

Undergraduate Students

• Yezi Dong• Ying Zhang• Nancy Huang• Kate Waldorf• Yimin Luo• Shrinidhi Rao• Jose Andres Novoa• Fan Meng• John Chapman

• Insoo Ro• Kelsey Wolak• Erte Xi• Deughyeong An • Tianlong Wang

Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry•Robert Szafranski (1997), Exxon-Mobil

•Sho-Wei Lo (1999), Shell

•Dicksen Tanzil (2001), BRIDGES to Sustainability

•Gigi Qian Zhang (2001) Baker Hughes

•David Ting (2003), Shell

•Alejandro Pena (2003), Schlumberger, Bakersfield

•Jason Chen (2005), Marathon

•Leslie Zhang (2005), Westport

•Mark Flaum (2006 ), Schlumberger - Sugarland

•Busheng Li (2006), Shell

•Wei Yan (2006), Bectel, IPS

•Vivek Anand (2007), Schlumberger - Sugarland

Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry

• Shunhua Liu (2008), Oxy• Gaurav Bhatnagar (2008), Shell-Westhollow• Doris Gonzalez (2008), Schlumberger- OilPhase• Clint Aichele (2009), Conoco Phillips• Tianmin Jiang (2009), Schlumberger• Francisco Vagas (2009), The Petroleum Institute• Arjun Kurup (2009), Schlumberger (Saudi Arabia)• Robert Li (2011), Shell - Bellaire• Elton Yang (2011), Chevron - Richmond

Processes in Porous Media Consortium• Focus Areas

– NMR well logging– Wettability alteration & low IFT EOR – Foam mobility control– Emulsion separation– Asphaltene deposition– Gas hydrate

• Core competency– Formation evaluation– Enhanced oil recovery– Flow assurance

• Products– Graduates– Theses– Preprints for publications– Computer code (upon request)

Department of Energy• Detection and Production of Dynamic,

Heterogeneous Methane Hydrate Systems• 2007-2011• Jerry Dickens, Brandon Dugan, and Colin

Zelt (Earth Science)• Priyank Jaiswal (Oklahoma State

University)• Kishore Mohanty (UT)

Department of Energy

• Novel CO2 Foam Concepts and Injection Schemes for Improving CO2 Sweep Efficiency in Sandstone and Carbonate Hydrocarbon Formations (2010-2013)

• Quoc Nguyen, UT• Keith Johnston, UT• Lisa Biswal, Rice• Cost-share with Consortium

Proprietary Research

• Shell – High temperature & salinity surfactants• IOC – EOR, Middle East• National Oil Company – EOR (with UT, CSM, Stanford)

• Kinder Morgan – Surfactant EOR in Carbonate

• ADCO – CO2 Foam, with UT & PI (2010)

Manuscripts on: Website: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gjh/Consortium/

• Wettability Alteration of Clays in Solid Stabilized Emulsions

• Low IFT, Wettability, & Foam in Heterogeneous Systems

• Viscosity of Live BItumen from NMR

• Methane Hydrate in Heterogeneous Systems

• Separation of Produced Emulsions from Surfactant EOR

• Effects of clay wettability and process variables on diluted bitumen emulsions

• Analytical Theory for Sulfate-Methane Transition to Gas Hydrate Saturation

• Surfactant Systems For EOR In High-temperature, High-salinity Environments

• One-Third Rule for Hydrocarbons

• Surfactant Titration Manual

• Acid Number Titration Manual

• Kaolinite Zeta Potential

• NMR Response of Liquids and Natural Gas Mixtures

• Characterization and Rheology of Emulsions from Deepwater Fields

• Saturation Profiles via NMR Imaging

• …

Processes in Porous Media, 2011 April 26, 2011

McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall7:45 Coffee8:00 George Hirasaki, State of the Consortium and Agenda8:15 Leyu Cui, Evaluation of Betaine as Foam Booster8:35 Robert Li, Foam Mobility Control & Wettability Alteration in Heterogeneous9:00 Lisa Biswal, Micromodels for Foam in Porous Media 9:15 Kun Ma, Surfactant Adsorption on Carbonates9:30 Amir Amini, HPLC Surfactant Analysis9:50 Hadi Shamsi Jazeyi, Surfactant Adsorption Reduction10:00 Coffee10:15 Maura Puerto, Salinity Maps & Dynamic Emulsification10:35 Jose Lopez Salinas, Foam at High Temperature and Salinity10:55 Olina Raney, Diluted Bitumen Emulsions11:10 Aparna Raju Sagi, Low Salinity, Low Temperature Carbonates11:30 Neeraj Rohilla, Rate Dependent Displacement in Carbonate Rocks11:50 Lunch

Agenda (afternoon)

1:00 Elton Yang, Estimating Viscosity of Live Bitumen with NMR1:20 Michael Rauschhuber, Oil Saturation from T2 – D Profiling1:40 Anju Kurup, Asphaltene Deposition Simulator2:00 Sai Ravindra Panuganti, Asphaltene Compositional Grading2:20 Sayantan Chatterjee, Gas Hydrate in Heterogeneous Systems2:40 Guangsheng Gu, Seismic Blanking in Hydrate Systems3:00 Sumedh Warudkar, Alkanolamines for Carbon Capture3:20 GJH, Advice from Consortium on way forward3:40 Lab Visit

Attendees

• Terry Hagiwara Aramco Services Company

• Jackie Behles Baker Hughes • Gigi Zhang Baker Hughes Inc.• Mark Williams Baker Hughes Inc. • Jason Fox Champion Technologies • Jan Beetge Champion Technologies • Dengen Zhou Chevron • Marcos Briceno ConocoPhillips • Terry Christian ConocoPhillips • Liping Jia ConocoPhillips • Qing Chen ConocoPhillips • Robin Gupta ExxonMobil • Loan Vo ExxonMobil • Mark Beckman ExxonMobil • Sergio Leonardi ExxonMobil• Kyle Guice ExxonMobil• George L Stegemeier GLS Engineering, Inc. • Jonathan Kwan Kinder Morgan CO2

• Candace Craft Marathon Oil • Hung-Lung Chen Marathon Oil • Jason Chen Marathon Oil Company • Peter Day Marathon Oil Company • Mike Dunleavy Marathon Oil Company • Benjamin Ramirez Marathon Oil Company • Richard Rosen Marathon Oil Company • Swapn Das Marathon Oil Company • Edward Yang Marathon Oil Company • Duy Nguyen Nalco • Pauziyah Abdul Hamid PETRONAS Research • Arif Azhan Abdul Manap PETRONAS Research SB • Manoel Farias PUC-RIO / PETROBRAS • Manilal Dahanayake Rhodia

Attendees• Scott Wellington Rice U• Michael Wong Rice U. • Walter Chapman Rice Univ. • Olina Raney Rice University • George Hirasaki Rice University • Hadi ShamsiJazeyi Rice University • Sayantan Chatterjee Rice University • Robert Li Rice university • Kun Ma Rice University • Guangsheng Gu Rice University • Amir Amini Rice University • Sai Panuganti Rice University • Sibani Lisa Biswal Rice University • Anjushri Kurup Rice University • Sumedh Warudkar Rice University • Aarthi Muthuswamy Rice university • Clarence Miller Rice University • ELTON YANG RICE UNIVERSITY • Gautam Kini Rice University • Michael Rauschhuber Rice University • Rafael Verduzco Rice University

• Alhasan Fuseni Saudi Aramco • Nick Heaton Schlumberger • Mark Flaum Schlumberger • Geza Horvath-Szabo Schlumberger • Julian Barnes Shell • Rien Faber Shell • Grant Haddix Shell Chem • Joseph Redican Shell Chemical • Claudia Ishizawa Shell E&P • Kirk Raney Shell Exploration & Production • Robert Moene Shell Global Solutions • Jeff Southwick Shell Intl. E&P • Carmen Reznik Shell Oil • Michael Poindexter The Dow Chemical Company • Aaron Sanders The Dow Chemical Company • Sayeed Abbas The Dow Chemical Company • TOM BURGHART TIORCO LLC • Danielle Morel Total • Khalid Mateen TOTAL • Pascal GAUER TOTAL E&P • Maurice BOURREL TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS

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