17th Annual Meeting of the Rice University Consortium on Processes in Porous Media Rice University April

Consortium Members Addax Baker - Hughes Champion CESI Chemical Chevron Conoco Phillips Core Labs* Denbury Resources Exxon Mobil Halliburton Huntsman Kinder Morgan Marathon Oil Chem* Oxy Petroleum PETRONAS PTS* Repsol Rhodia Schlumberger Shell SINOPEC Saudi Aramco SNF Oilfield Group 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) Keith Johnston (UT) Quoc Nguyen (UT) Kamy Sepehrnoori (UT) Francisco Vargas (PI) Arne Graue (U. Bergen) Rouhi Farajzadeh (TU Delft) Ahmed Abdala (PI) Maghsood Abbaszadeh (IPS)

Staff, Visiting Scientist, & Post-Doc Maura Puerto (retired Exxon) Yingcheng Li (SINOPEC) Jerimiah Forsythe (PhD, LSU) Jose Lopez (PhD, Rice)

Current Ph.D. Students Guangsheng Gu Sumedh Warudkar (defended PhD) Kun Ma (defended PhD) Leyu Cui Aparna Raju Sagi Sai Panuganti Hadi ShamsiJazeyi Aarthi Muthuswamy Charles Conn AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh Yongchao Zeng (joined 2013) Luqing Qi (joined 2013)

Undergraduate Students Jenny An Chang Da Junli Hao Mengchen Tang Ivan Tanakov Yang Kim Sun Kim Yichen Liu Shaoyu Zhu Rachel Liontas Chang Tian Sunyoung Moon Austin Woo Tung Nguyen Tianlong Wang Yezi Dong Julie Chenyan Lu (BS) Ramesh Pudasaini (BS)

Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry Robert Szafranski (1997), Exxon-Mobil Sho-Wei Lo (1999), BHP Billiton Dicksen Tanzil (2001), BRIDGES to Sustainability Gigi Qian Zhang (2001) Baker Hughes David Ting (2003), Shell Alejandro Pena (2003), Schlumberger, Sugarland 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 (cont.) Shunhua Liu (2008), Oxy Gaurav Bhatnagar (2008), Shell Doris Gonzalez (2008), BP Clint Aichele (2009), Oklahoma State University Tianmin Jiang (2009), Schlumberger Francisco Vagas (2009), The Petroleum Institute Arjun Kurup (2009), Schlumberger Robert Li (2011), Shell Elton Yang (2011), Chevron – Richmond Michael Rauschhuber (2011), Chevron – Richmond Sayantan Chatterjee (2012), Shell Neeraj Rohilla (2012), TIORCO

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 Novel CO 2 Foam Concepts and Injection Schemes for Improving CO 2 Sweep Efficiency in Sandstone and Carbonate Hydrocarbon Formations ( ) 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 (defended PhD) – Jeremiah Forsythe (post-doc) – Second post-doc

Proprietary Research National Oil Company – EOR (with UT, Stanford) ADNOC – CO 2 Foam & Asphaltene, with UT & PI ( ) IOC - Surfactants IOC – Hydrocarbon gas (WAG) mobility control IOC – Low IFT EOR AEC – Nanoparticles for low IFT

Manuscripts on: Website: Carbon Capture, High Pressure Stripper, by Sumedh Warudkar, et al. Carbon Capture, Low Pressure Stripper, by Sumedh Warudkar, et al. Sacrificial Agent for Surfactant Adsorption, by Hadi Shams Jazaya, et al. Surfactant Flooding Low Salinity, Fractured Carbonate Reservoir, by Aparna Raju Sagi, et al. Estimation of Foam Parameters, Part 2, by Kun Ma, et al. Simulation of Foam Flow: Dry-Out Effect, by Kum Ma,et al. Determination of Anhydrite in Reservoirs for EOR by Jose Lopez, et al. …

Agenda 8:00 Welcome - Dean Ned Thomas; Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering 8:10 Rice University Energy and Environment Initiative – George McLendon; Provost 8:20 Introduction by President David Leebron; NorTex: Research Collaboration Norway-Texas partnering with Industry Challenges- Jostein Mykletun, C.G. of Norway 8:30 The Norwegian - Texas Collaboration on CO2 EOR - Dr. Arne Graue, University of Bergen 8:40 State of the Consortium - Dr. George Hirasaki 8:50 Nanoparticles for Oil Detection and Recovery - Dr. James Tour: Chemistry Department 9:10 Novel Bubble Pinch-Off Mechanisms - Dr. Lisa Biswal 9:25 Estimation of parameters for the simulation of foam flow - Kun Ma 9:45 Coffee 10:00 The effect of surfactant distribution in foam flooding - Yongchao Zeng 10:20 Visualizing Oil Displacement in Porous Media Micromodels - Charles Conn 10:40 Minimum pressure gradient for viscoelastic surfactant foam in porous media - Aarthi Muthuswamy 11:00 CO2 Mobility Control in Carbonate Cores - Leyu Cui 11:20 Surfactant system selection to generate foam for EOR application - AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh 11:40 Quantitative and Qualitative study of foams for EOR applications - Jose Lopez 12:00 Lunch 1:00 EOR by Using Mixtures of Anionic-Cationic Surfactants - Dr. Yingcheng Li, SINOPEC 1:20 Evaluation of an ASP Prospect - Ding Lei 1:35 Sacrificial Agent for Reducing Adsorption of Anionic Surfactants - Hadi Shamsi Jazeyi 1:55 Surfactant EOR in fractured carboante reservoirs - Aparna Raju Sagi 2:15 Improved Absorbents for CO2 Capture - Sumedh Warudkar 2:35 Coffee 2:50 Property Scaling Relations for Nonpolar Hydrocarbons - Sai Panuganti 3:10 Application of asphaltene deposition tool (ADEPT) simulator to field cases - Yi Chen 3:30 Recommendations from Consortium Members for Future Research 4:00 Laboratory Tour 6:30 Reception at home of Consul General of Norway, Jostein Mykletun

Lab Tours You are here Carbon Capture &Asphaltene Micromodels EOR Formulation EOR Flooding

Attendees LeonardGeoffreyBaker Hughes QuinteroLirioBaker Hughes WilliamsMarkBaker Hughes ChenJinhongBaker Hughes Inc. ZhangGigiBaker Hughes Inc. SanchezJorgeBASF DwyerPatrickcEOR Alliance HartPaulChampion Technologies MaciasJoseChampion Technologies TavakkoliMohammadChemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University. SubramaniHariChevron WangJianxinChevron ZhangMaxChevron MunsonLesChevron Corp. NgRickChevron Energy Technology Co. ZhouDengenChevron ETC KwanJonathanConocoPhillips WickramathilakaSiluniConocoPhillips RaneyOlinaConsultant KraussEvaCore Laboratories VoTuanCore Laboratories GuptaRobinExxonMobil InogluNilayExxonMobil HehmeyerOwenExxonMobil Upstream Company MohanArunaExxonMobil Upstream Research Company XiaoRongExxonmobil URC StegemeierGeorge LGLS Engineering, Inc. StegemeierGeorge LGLS Engineering, Inc. SandorMagdalenaHalliburton XuLiangHalliburton BiesmansGuyHuntsman GodavarthySriniHuntsman SalazarLuisHuntsman NguyenScottIsrael Energy Initiatives GharbiRidhaKuwait Oil Company DasSwapanMarathon Oil ChenHung-LungMarathon Oil Corporation FengLijieMulti-Chem, A Halliburton Service QuLiangweiMulti-Chem, A Halliburton Service FengLijieMulti-chem, A Halliburton Sevice BarroetaErickMulti-Chem/Halliburton NguyenChristinaMultiChm, A Halliburton Service NguyenDuyNalco NguyenDuyNalco Mohd ShafianSiti RohaidaPETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd ZainalSuzalinaPETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd AnazodoEmekaPTS Laboratories, Inc. HarrellBenjaminPTS Laboratories, Inc. WONGMICHAELRICE ChengYinhongRice Univ. CHBE BiswalLisaRice University chenyiRice University ColvinVickiRice University ConnCharlesRice University CuiLeyuRice University DingLeiRice University GangoliVarunRice University GuGuangshengRice University HirasakiGeorgeRice University LiuYichenRice University Lopez-SalinasJoseRice University MaKunRice University MeadeAndrewRice University MillerClarenceRice University MuthuswamyAarthiRice University PanugantiSaiRice University PuppalaHemaRice University QiLuqingRice University SagiAparna RajuRice University ShamsiHadiRice University TourJamesRice University ValiollahzadehAmirHoseinRice University VerduzcoRafaelRice University WangZhipengRice University WangJinghuiRice University WarudkarSumedhRice University WellingtonScottRice University ZengYongchaoRice University DementyevAnatolySchlumberger FlaumMarkSchlumberger ZielinskiLukaszSchlumberger VermaSandeepSchlumberger-Doll Research AdamskiRobertShell AroraDhruvShell BarnesJulianShell LiRobertShell PoteauSandrineShell SvecYiShell ReznikCarmenShell Global Solutions van KuijkSjoerdShell Global Solutions DubeySheilaShell Global Solutions (US) Inc. FaberRienShell Global Solutions International KingTimothyShell Global Solutions, Inc. PanWeiyiSINOPEC Beijing Institute WangZihaoSINOPEC Beijing Institute LiyingchengSINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology ShenZhiqinSINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology ShaOuSINOPEC Shanghai Research Insttute of Petrochemical Technology GaillardNicolasSNF TOGNISSOElvireSNF SAS CHABERTMaxSolvay-The Chemical EOR Alliance ShehataAhmedTexas A&M ShehataAhmedTexas A&M Univerisity JeffreyMitchThe Jeffrey Group LiyanagePathmaThe University Of Texas At Austin RohillaNeerajTIORCO ThomasCharlesTIORCO LevittDavidTotal MorelDanielleTOTAL GraueArneUniv. of Bergen CaiJiajiaUniversity of Texas at Austin DufourSophieYPF