16th Annual Meeting of the

Rice University Consortium on Processes in Porous Media

Rice UniversityApril 23 2012

Consortium Members• Addax• ADNOC• Baker - Hughes• Champion• CESI Chemical • Chevron• Conoco Phillips• Core Labs*• COSL• Exxon Mobil• Halliburton• Huntsman• Kinder Morgan

• Marathon• Oil Chem*• Oxy Petroleum• PETRONAS• PTS*• Repsol• Rhodia• Schlumberger• Shell• SINOPEC• Saudi Aramco• TIORCO• Total• Water Standard

* In-kind contributions

Faculty & Collaborators• George J. Hirasaki• Clarence A. Miller• Walter G. Chapman• Ken Cox• Lisa Biswal• Michael S. Wong• Rafael Verduzco• Scott Wellington• Ed Billips (Chemistry)• Jim Tour (Chemistry)

• Kishore Mohanty (UT)• Gary Pope (UT)• Keith Johnston (UT)• Quoc Nguyen (UT)• Kamy Sepehrnoori (UT)• Francisco (Paco) Vargas

(PI)• Arne Graue (U. Bergen)

Staff & Visiting Scientist

• Maura Puerto (retired Exxon)• Amir Amini (PhD, Rice)• Jerimiah Forsythe (PhD, LSU)• Yingcheng Li (SINOPEC)

Current Ph.D. Students

• Jose Lopez• Neeraj Rohilla• Guangsheng Gu• Sumedh Warudkar• Sayantan Chatterjee (defended PhD)• Kun Ma• Leyu Cui• Aparna Raju Sagi• Sai Panuganti• Hadi ShamsiJazeyi• Aarthi Muthuswamy• Charles Conn• AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh (2012)

Undergraduate Students

• Yezi Dong• Ying Zhang• Deema Altaher • Ivan Tanakov• Tianlong Wang • Rachel Liontas• Ann Ofulue• Tae Hyun (David) Yun

• Insoo Ro• Kelsey Wolak• Erte Xi• Jenny An • Tianlong Wang• Rahul Kaveeshwar• Alex Chiu• Kevin Huang• Jiayu Lucas Lu • Leela Christian-Tabak

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), Schlumberger, Houston

• 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• Michael Rauschhuber (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• 2007-2012• Hirasaki and Walter Chapman • 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• George Hirasaki, Rice• Lisa Biswal, Rice• Cost-share with Consortium• Preparing pilots with Marathon & Oxy

Department of Energy• Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture • Faculty

– George J.Hirasaki– Michael S. Wong– Ken R. Cox– Ed Billips (Chemistry)

• PhD and Post-doc– Sumedh Warudker– Jeremiah Forsythe

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

• ADNOC – CO2 Foam & Asphaltene, 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

• …

Agenda

8:00 am — 8:10 am State of the Consortium - Dr. George Hirasaki 8:10 am — 8:30 am Surfactant for foaming and EOR applications at high temperature - Jose Luis Lopez Salinas8:30 am — 8:50 am SINOPEC research progress of surfactants for EOR - Dr. Yingcheng Li 8:50 am — 9:10 am Functionalized nanoparticles for EOR at high temperature and salinity - Dr. James Tour 9:10 am — 9:25 am CMC as a measure of surfactant-surfactant inter-actions -. AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh 9:25 am — 9:45 am Live oil surfactant phase behavior -. Aparna Raju Sagi 9:45 am — 10:00 am COFFEE-BREAK (Duncan Hall Lobby) 10:00 am — 10:20 am Polyacrylate as sacrificial adsorption agent for anionic surfactants - Hadi Shamsi Jazeyi 10:20 am — 10:40 am Surfactant-enhanced spontaneous imbibition in oil-wet, carbonate formations - Dr. Amir Amini

10:40 am — 11:00 am Viscoelastic surfactants and foam in porous media - Aarthi Muthuswamy 11:00 am — 11:20 am Pore-level visualization of foam in micromodels for enhanced oil recovery - Dr. Lisa Biswal11:20 am — 11:40 am Estimation of parameters for simulation of steady state foam in porous media - Kun Ma 11:40 am — 12:00 pm Cationic surfactant adsorption on natural carbonate minerals - Leyu Cui 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm LUNCH (Duncan Hall, Room #3092) 1:00 pm — 1:20 pm Pore structure of vuggy carbonates and rate dependent dynamic adsorption - Neeraj Rohilla 1:20 pm — 1:40 pm Modeling shallow pore water chemistry above gas hydrate systems - Sayantan Chatterjee 1:40 pm — 2:00 pm Gas hydrate/ free gas distribution due to salinity change - Guangsheng Gu 2:00 pm — 2:20 pm Post-combustion carbon capture using “Waste heat” - Sumedh Warudkar 2:20 pm — 2:40 pm Amine-functionalized ceramic materials for enhanced gas absorption - Dr. Jerimiah Forsythe2:40 pm — 3:00 pm Reservoir compartmentalization and tarmat using gravity induced asphaltene - Sai Panuganti3:00 pm — 3:20 pm Directions for future research 3:20 pm — 4:00 pm Optional lab tours

Lab Tours

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Carbon Capture &Asphaltene

Micromodels

EOR Formulation

EOR Flooding

Attendees• Mohammad Delshad Aramco Services Company • Teruhiko Hagiwara Aramco Services Company • Justin Debord Baker Hughes • Geoffrey Leonard Baker Hughes • Vaithilingam Panchalingam Baker Hughes • Ramakrishna Ponnapati Baker Hughes • Lirio Quintero Baker Hughes • Mark Williams Baker Hughes • Jan Beetge Champion Technologies • Tieying Gong Champion Technologies • Mike Jackson Champion Technologies • Charles Hammond Champion Technologies • Varadarajan Dwarakanath Chevron • Choongyong Han Chevron • Les Munson Chevron • Hao Sun Chevron • Vishal Bang ConocoPhillips • Marcos Briceno ConocoPhillips • Jonathan Kwan ConocoPhillips • Bill O'Brien ConocoPhillips • Alexander Vyssotski Core Laboratories • Robin Gupta ExxonMobil • Lisa Lun ExxonMobil • Loan Vo ExxonMobil • Owen Hehmeyer ExxonMobill

• Yu Bian Flotek • James Ogle Halliburton • Allan Ye Halliburton • Guy Biesmans Huntsman • Luis Salazar Huntsman • Olina Raney Independent Consultant • Maghsood Abbaszadeh Innovative Petrotech Solutions• Jiansheng Chen Marathon Oil • Basak Kurtoglu Marathon Oil • Hung-Lung Chen Marathon Oil Company • DUY Nguyen Nalco • Paul Berger Oil Chem Technologies • Fernando Rodriguez PEMEX • Antonio Villavicencio PEMEX • Sonia Embid Repsol • Jose Guitian Repsol • Manny Dahanayake Rhodia

Attendees• Michael Wong Rice University • Amir Amini Rice University • Sibani Lisa Biswal Rice University • Walter Chapman Rice University • Sayantan Chatterjee Rice University • Charles Conn Rice University • Leyu Cui Rice University • Jerimiah Forsythe Rice University • Guangsheng Gu Rice University• Jose Lopez-Salinas Rice University • Kun Ma Rice University • Clarence Miller Rice University • Aarthi Muthuswamy Rice University • Sai Panuganti Rice University • Maura Puerto Rice University • Neeraj Rohilla Rice University• Aparna Raju Sagi Rice University • Hadi ShamsiJazeyi Rice University • Ivan Tanakov Rice University • James Tour Rice University • Wei Lu Rice University• Chih-Chau Hwang Rice University• Yi Chen Rice University• AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh Rice University

• Rafael Verduzco Rice University • Sumedh Warudkar Rice University • George Hirasaki Rice University • Clarence Miller Rice University• Ming Han Saudi Aramco • Ali Yousef Saudi Aramco • Vivek Anand Schlumberger • Mark Andersen Schlumberger • Mark Flaum Schlumberger • Leslie Zhang Schlumberger • Lukasz Zielinski Schlumberger • Andrew Clarke Schlumberger Cambridge Research• Jeffrey Paulsen Schlumberger Doll

Research • Kirk Raney Shell • Jeff Southwick Shell • YingCheng Li Sinopec Shanghai Research Institute of

Petrochemical Technology • Sayeed Abbas The Dow Chemical Company• Aaron Sanders The Dow Chemical

Company • Tom Burghart TIORCO • Charles Thomas TIORCO • Philippe Cordelier TOTAL • Danielle Morel TOTAL