• The EnhancedOil Recovery Institute (EORI) resides in theSchoolofEnergyResourcesandcontributestoboththere-searchandoutreachcomponentsofthatSchool.

• The EORI is financially supported by theWyoming StateLegislature and is mandated to promote the recovery ofWyoming’sstrandedoil.

• FundingisprovidedtotheEnhancedOilRecoveryCommis-sion(EORC),appointedbytheGovernor,andistransferredtoUWthroughaMemorandumofUnderstanding.

• TheEORCoverseesthefinancialandprocedural issuesre-gardingtheEORI.

• ThetechnicalactivitiesoftheEORIareoverseenbyaTech-nicalAdvisoryBoard(TAB)thatisselectedbytheEORIDi-rector from scientists, engineers and economists in aca-demia, government and industry, and currently includesthreemembersoftheNationalAcademy.

• EORIbudgetsaredevelopedonabiennialbasisbytheDi-rectorandapprovedbytheEORC,theGovernor,theJointAppropriationsCommitteeandtheLegislature.

• The EORI directly employs scientists and engineers (mostoftenas researchscientists)whoseskill setsandactivitiescontributetotheEORImandate.

• TheEORIsupports regular faculty,postdoctoral research-ers, graduate students and research scientistswhose skillsets and activities support the EORI mandate. Currentlythis type of support is being provided to individuals andprograms in the departments of Economics and Finance,ChemicalandPetroleumEngineeringandMathematics.

• The EORI temporarily contracts with specialists or other-wisearranges for theirservicesas requiredbyongoingorplannedtechnicalprojects.

• Theoutreachcomponentof the Institute’smission is sup-portedby itsbasicandapplied researchactivitiesand in-cludescollaborative studiesarranged throughconfidenti-alityagreements,scopingstudiesusingtheEORIdatabase,andtheformationofoperatorconsortia (strategicallianc-es)ontopicsofmutualinterest.

• The dissemination of technical information is providedthrough professional meetings, workshops, seminars andpubliclecturesarrangedand/orsponsoredbytheEORI.

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MR. PEtER WOld (Chairman) WoldOilProperties,Inc

MR. G. BRucE WilliaMs

OilandGasConservation Commission

Ms. Gail chEnOWEth

MarathonOilCompany

GOvERnOR davE FREudEnthal

Staffedby:ROB huRlEss Energy andTeleCommunica-

tionsPolicyAdvisor

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TechnicalAdvisoryBoard

dR. G. Paul WillhitE

TheUniversityofKansas

dR. JaMEs GRiFFin

TexasA&MUniversity

MR. hank tRuE

TrueOil,LLC

MR. kEn hEndRicks

AnadarkoPetroleum

MR. chuck PEtERsOn

DevonEnergyCorp.

MR. chRis hEavnER

MeritEnergy

EnhancedOilRecoveryCommission

dR. Randall sERiGht

New Mexico Institute ofMiningandTechnology

MR. l. stEPhEn MElzER

MelzerCO2Consulting

dR. GaRy POPE

TheUniversityofTexasatAustin

MR. chaRliE caRlislE

ChemicalTracers,Inc

dR. GEORGE hiRasaki

RiceUniversity

dR. PEtER hEnninGs

ConocoPhillips

MR. BERn hincklEy

HinckleyConsulting

Ms. BEtty FEaR

UWBoardofTrustees

dR. ROn suRdaM

WyomingStateGeologist

sEnatOR chuck tOWnsEnd

WyomingStateSenator

EORITeam-(45) Research Scientists - 13 Support Staff - 3 Post Doctoral Researcers - 2 Faculty Associates - 7 Graduate Students - 14 Part Time Employees - 3 Consultants - 3

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ProjectsSupported-(17)Economic Analysis

Reservoir Fluids

CO2 Capture

Fracture Permeability

Fly Ash Effect on Sweep Efficiency

Low Salinity Waterflooding

Three Phase Fluids

Reservoir characterization

Rock Mineralogy from Geophysical Logs

Water Shut Off Techniques

Chemical Stimulation of Well Bores

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Chemical EOR

Adjusted Brine Chemistry

Outcrop Reservoir Analogs

Database Development - EORI Database (Forney/Shier Donations)

Pipeline Development using GIS

EconomicScopingStudiesConducted-(6)Peabody Energy

El Paso Western Pipelines & Utility Company

Refined Energy Holdings

Black Hills Exploration

Blue Source

Energy Expediters

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REsEaRch

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ConsortiumTopicsReservoir conformance

Minnelusa fields

Gas displacement

Chemical EOR

Thermal EOR

Microbial EOR

Special technologies

CollaborativeStudies-(12)Elk Petroleum

Safford Oil

Nerd Gas

St. Mary’s Land and Exploration

Underwood Oil and Gas

EXCO

Windsor Energy

Nadel and Gussman

TR Operating

Continental Resources

Nance Petroleum

Merit Energy Co

DirectOrganizationalContacts-(7)Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)

Independant Petroleum Association of America (IPAA)

Independant Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS)

Oklahoma Independant Petroleum Association (OIPA)

Petroleum Association of Wyoming

Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Wyoming Pipeline Authority

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OutREach

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Meetings and Workshops - (18)

Name Date # Attended

Annual CO2 Conferences 06-2007 160 05-2008 223 06-2009 229

EOR/IOR Conference 09-2008 90

Geologic Fractures Workshop 07-2007 20 02-2009 20

Minnelusa Consortium 11-2008 10 05-2009 12 09-2009 10 02-2010 11

Polymer Gel Workshop 02-2005 50

Tensleep Reservoir Working 07-2005 30 Group

Finding the Balance 10-2007 200

EORI Wyoming Pipeline 05-2009 50 Authority

Chemical Workshop 10-2007 80

Hedburg Conference 07-2008 40

State of the Dominant Estate 11-2009 200 (UW Law School)

Wyoming Pipelines the 10-2008 100 Territory Ahead (UW Law School)

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OUTREACH (cOnt’d)

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ConfidentialityAgreements-(23)Black Hills Exploration and Production, Inc

Blue Source

DKRW Advanced Fuels

Elk Petroleum Inc

Energy Expediters

ExxonMobile Gas & Power

Marketing Americas CO2 and Helium Sales

Fabrication Technologies, Inc

Glori Oil Limited

Merit Energy Company

Mountain West Energy, LLC

Praxair, Inc

Stepan Company

Wyoming Cryogenics, Inc

True Oil, LLC

Denbury

Refined Energy Holdings

El Paso Wester Pipelines and Utility Company

Peabody Energy

DOW Chemical

Encore Acquisitions

W. Travis Brown Jr. / Kenneth Luff, Inc

Capitan Energy Companies

JB Coal

DirectCompanyInteractions-(61)

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OUTREACH (cOnt’d)

Advanced Resources International

(ARI)

Alberta Research Council

Anadarko

Black Hills Exploration

Blue Source

Capitan Energy

Citation

ConocoPhillips Company

Dakota Gas

Denbury

Devon

DKRW

Dow Chemical

Encana

ENCORE Acquisitions

Energy Expediters

EOG Resources

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OutREach (cOnt’d)

ExxonMobil Gas & Power

Fab Tech

Gas Tech

GelTech

Gene R. George & Associates

Glori Oil

Holand and Hart

HTC PureEnergy

Kinder Morgan CO2

Legado Resources

Marathon Oil

Merit Energy

Moncrief

Mosbacher Energy

Mustang Engineering

Nance Petroleum

Nadel and Gussman

Nerd Gas

Nicholas Consulting Group

Osborn Heirs

PacifiCorp

Peabody Energy

Petroleum Technology Research Centre - Regina

Praxair

Questar

Rancher Energy

Refined Energy Holdings

REPSEA

Resolute Natural Resources

Safford Oil

SARGAS

Shell E&P

Stepan Company

St. Mary’s Land and Exploration

Surtek

TIORCO

Trinity CO2

TR Operating

True Oil

Underwood Oil and Gas

WaveFront in Houston

Wyoming Cryogenics Inc

Wyoming Gasification and Synfuels Company

XTO

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BannerPhotos:ThebannerphotographsontheleftrepresenttherangeofEORIactivities.

•Top:EORIteammemberscollectingsamplesforanalysisfromaWyomingOilWell•Middle:OutcropoftheNuggetSandstonenearLander.TheNuggetisanimportantreservoirrockinWyoming.•Bottom:MicroscopeanalysisofathinsectionofaWyomingreservoirsandstone