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This school covers the technology of foam for enhanced oil recovery from pore-level mechanisms to field-scale application, with an emphasis on simple, practical reservoir-engineering design tools and fitting simulation parameters to laboratory data.
24 – 28 June 2013, Department of Geosciences and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
RegistrationFor registration please send an email to an organizing committee member.
Deadline for registration: 1 April 2013
Registration fee- $2500 attendees from industry
- $1000 academic staff
- $500 PhD students and Post doc researchers
Funds might be available for accommodation of PhD students, however, not guaranteed.
Topics Covered- Review of pore-level mechanisms
- Guidance on surfactant choice
- Fitting foam simulator parameters to laboratory data
- Challenges for foam simulation
- Simple tools for estimating foam propagation rate, diversion between layers, injectivity,
and gravity override
Instructors:
Prof. W.R. Rossen (Delft University of Technology)
Prof. P.L.J. Zitha (Delft University of Technology)
Prof. A.R. Kovscek (Stanford University)
Prof. G.J. Hirasaki (Rice University)
William R. Rossen is Professor of Reservoir Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His research interests include foams for well simulation and EOR and sweep efficiency in gas EOR. He has received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty from the SPE and was named an IOR Pioneer in the 2012 SPE/DOE Sympo-sium on Improved Oil Recovery in Tulsa, OK. In 2011 he was named Best Instructor at Delft University of Technology.
George J. Hirasaki had a 26-year career with Shell Develop-ment and Shell Oil Companies before joining the Chemical Engineering faculty at Rice University in 1993. At Shell, his research areas were reservoir simulation, enhanced oil recov-ery, and formation evaluation. At Rice, his research interests are in NMR well logging, reservoir wettability, surfactant enhanced oil recovery, foam mobility control, gas hydrate re-covery, asphaltene deposition, and emulsion separation. He received the SPE Lester Uren Award in 1989. He was named an Improved Oil Recovery Pioneer at the 1998 SPE/DOE IOR Symposium. He was the 1999 recipient of the Society of Core Analysts Technical Achievement Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineers.
Tony Kovscek is a Professor and Chairman of the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is also the director of the SUPRI-A, Unconventional and Enhanced Oil Recovery Consortium. In collaboration with his research group, he examines the physics of transport and reaction in porous media as relevant to enhanced oil recovery. Kovscek has been honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty from the Society of Petro-leum Engineers (SPE) and the SPE Western North America Region Technical Achievement Award.
Pacelli L.J. Zitha is Professor of Oil and Gas Production at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Geotech-nology. From 2006 to 2010 he has been working as a Senior Research Advisor for Shell International E&P. For many years, he worked in water control and foam diversion. His current research interests include well inflow performance, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Geological CO2 storage, heavy oil and gas hydrates. He has served in various SPE committees, including as a Chairman of the European Formation Damage Conference and member the SPE R&D Advisory Committee.
Organizing committeeProf. William R. Rossen [email protected]
Dr. Rouhi Farajzadeh [email protected] [email protected]
Stevinweg 1
2628CN, Delft
The Netherlands
www.DelftFoamSchool.citg.tudelft.nl
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