18th Annual Meeting of the Rice University Consortium on Processes in Porous Media April 21 2014

Consortium Members Lubrizol Baker - Hughes CESI Chemical Marathon Chevron Conoco Phillips Core Labs* Denbury Resources Ecopetrol Exxon Mobil Halliburton Huntsman Kinder Morgan Korean National Oil Co. Kuwait Oil Company Lubrizol Marathon Oil Chem* Oxy Petroleum PETRONAS PTS* Repsol Solvay Rhodia Schlumberger Shell SINOPEC Saudi Aramco SNF 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 Francisco Vargas Scott Wellington Ed Billips (Chemistry) Jim Tour (Chemistry) Keith Johnston (UT) Quoc Nguyen (UT) Arne Graue (U. Bergen) Rouhi Farajzadeh (TU Delft, Shell) Ahmed Abdala (PI) Ali Al Sumati (PI) Maghsood Abbaszadeh (IPS)

Staff, Visiting Scientist, & Post-Doc Maura Puerto (retired Exxon) Jose Lopez (PhD, Rice) Angelica Garcia (B.Sc., M.Sc., UANL) Zhen Wang (PhD, Zhejiang University)

Current Ph.D. Students Charles Conn (defended) Leyu Cui (defended) Aparna Raju Sagi Hadi ShamsiJazeyi Aarthi Muthuswamy Yongchao Zeng Luqing Qi Leo Wang Yu-Jiun (Nate) Lin Ding Li (visiting, China University of Petroleum) Gedeng (Gordon) Ruan Pengfei (Patrick) Dong Guoqing (Michael) Jian Daniel Vecchiolla Jason Mann

Undergraduate Students Chang Da Paige Horton Maggie Jerome Sun Hye Kim Dongheon Lee Sha Li Tung Nguyen Aaron Roudina Chang Tian Austin Woo Shaoyu Zhu Lisa Chiba Alina Datta-Gupta Sun Ji Yichen Liu Michael Mardock Dan Su Yu Su Naina Noorani Ramsey Padilla Jeffrey Joyce Jesus Duran

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 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), Rice University 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

Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry (cont.) Kun Ma (2013) Total Sumedh Warudkar (2013) Shell Sai Panuganti (2013) BP Charles Conn (summer, 2014) Shell

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 CO2 Foam Concepts and Injection Schemes for Improving CO2 Sweep Efficiency in Sandstone and Carbonate Hydrocarbon Formations (2010-2014) Quoc Nguyen, UT Keith Johnston, UT Arne Graue, U. Bergen George Hirasaki, Rice Lisa Biswal, Rice Cost-share with Consortium Preparing pilot in East Seminole

Department of Energy South Louisiana Enhanced Oil Recovery/ Sequestration Demonstration Project Blackhorse Energy, LLC Faculty Scott Wellington George Hirasaki Lisa Biswal Student/Staff Guoqing (Michael) Jian Maura Puerto

Department of Energy Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture 2011-2014 Faculty Michael S. Wong George J.Hirasaki Ken R. Cox Ed Billips (Chemistry) PhD and Post-doc Zhen Wang (Post-Doc)

Proprietary Research National Oil Company – EOR ADNOC – CO2 Foam, Low IFT, & Asphaltene, with UT & PI IOC – Surfactant Formulations IOCs – Hydrocarbon gas (WAG) mobility control AEC – Nanoparticles for low IFT

Manuscripts on: Website: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gjh/Consortium/ Adsorption of a Cationic Surfactant on Carbonate Minerals, by Leyu Cui (Download) Asphaltene Behavior in Crude Oil Systems, PhD thesis by Sai Panugant (Download) Polydisperse behavior of asphaltenes during precipitation, by Mohammad Tavakkoli (Download) Property Scaling Relations for Nonpolar Hydrocarbons, by Sai Panugant (Download) SAFT model for upstream asphaltene applications, by Sai Panugant (Download) PC-SAFT Characterization of Crude Oils and Asphaltene, by Sai Panuganti (Download) Tar Mat from Asphaltene Compositional Grading, by Sai Ravindra Panuganti, et al.(Download) Carbon Capture, High Pressure Stripper, by Sumedh Warudkar, et al. (Download) Carbon Capture, Low Pressure Stripper, by Sumedh Warudkar, et al. (Download) Sacrificial Agent for Surfactant Adsorption, by Hadi Shams Jazaya, et al. (Download) 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 (George Hirasaki) 8:05 Rice Energy & Environment Initiative (Charles McConnell) 8:15 The NORTEX Collaboration (Arne Graue) 8:25 Introduction to Consortium (George Hirasaki) 8:40 Formulations for Low IFT and Strong Foam (Maura Puerto) 9:00 Foam in Porous Media and Fractures (Jose Lopez Salinas) 9:20 Adsorption of Betaine (Hadi ShamsiJazeyi) 9:40 Alkali / Crude Oil Phase Behavior (Ding Lei) 10:00 Effect of Hardness and Cosurfactant in PO Sulfate Systems (Clarence Miller) 10:20 Break 10:35 Mixtures of Anionic-Cationic Surfactants (Yingcheng Li) 10:55 Betaine: Anionic Surfactant Blends for Foam (Aarthi Muthuswamy) 11:15 Effect of Surfactant Partition Coefficient on Foam Transport (Yongchao Zeng) 11:35 CO2 Foam at Reservoir Conditions (Leyu Cui) 11:55 Foam Transport in Micromodels (Charles Conn) 12:15 Lunch 1:30 Ultra-Low IFT with New Sulfonate-Based Nanomaterial (Michael Wong) 1:50 Polymeric Nanoparticles for Hydrocarbon Detection (Gedeng (Gordon) Ruan) 2:10 Bottlebrush Polymer & Surfactant for Low IFT (Luqing Qi) 2:30 Partitioning of Surfactant between Phases (Aparna Raju Sagi) 2:50 Asphaltene Deposition in Microfluidic Channels (Yu-Jiun (Nate) Lin) 3:10 Prediction and Mitigation of Asphaltene Deposition (Francisco Vargas) 3:30 Consortium on Petroleum Thermodynamics and Flow Assurance (Vargas) 3:40 Tuning Chemomechanics of Well Cement (Rouzbeh Shahsavari) 3:50 Rice University Water and Energy Research Center (Qilin Li) 4:00 Recommendations from Consortium Members 4:20 Laboratory Tour

Lab Tours Micromodels EOR Formulation EOR Flooding You are here Also Keck 207 for Verduzco polymer lab You are here

Attendees Chen Cheng Halliburton Palla Chandra Qu Liangwei Ye Allan Proett Mark Aramco Services Co. Quintero Lirio Baker Hughes Williams Zhang Boyang Ying Bayer Technology Services Germack David CESI Chemical Hill Randall Lett Nathan Hammond Charles CESI Chemical a FLOTEK Company Adepoju Ola Chevron Fathi Nariman Ma Xianlin Mims Don Sayarpour Morteza Xu Josh Yang Elton Chen Cheng Halliburton Palla Chandra Qu Liangwei Ye Allan Salazar Luis Huntsman Gharbi Ridha Kuwait Oil Company He Peng Los Alamos National Laboratory Chang Zen-Yu Lubrizol Jackson Mitchell Xiu Zongming Hung-Lung Marathon Oil Company Kothamasu Ramya Multichem Kai Multichem, a Halliburton Service Feng Lijie Multi-Chem, A Halliburton Service Nguyen Duy Nalco Champion Berger Paul Oil Chem Technologies Sharp Kip Oxiteno ZAINAL SUZALINA PETRONAS RESEARCH Abdul Manap Arif Azhan PETRONAS Research SB Lo Lilian ConocoPhillips Wickramathilaka Siluni Grobelny Michael Core Lab Jank Thomas Parris Lisa Xie Harry hawley philip Core Laboratories Vo Tuan D'Souza David Denbury Mohan Aruna ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Lavanya Sinha Somnath Stegemeier George L. GLS Engineering, Inc.

Attendees Andersen Mark Schlumberger Clark Brian Dementyev Anatoly Cassiola Flavia Rice Cheng Yinhong Rice Univ. CHBE Ahmed Wael Rice University Al Hammadi Ali Ballal Deepti Biswal Lisa Chapman Walter Conn Charles Cui Leyu Da Chang Ding Lei Dong Pengfei Fu Justin Garcia Angelica Hirasaki George Jian Guoqing Liu Astron Lopez Jose Mann Jason Munday Sarah Muthuswamy Aarthi pradhan sivaram Puerto Maura Qi Luqing Ruan Gedeng Sagi Aparna Raju ShamsiJazeyi Hadi Tian Vecchiolla Daniel Wang Le wang zhen WONG MICHAEL RICE UNIVERSITY Woo Austin Zeng Yongchao Andersen Mark Schlumberger Clark Brian Dementyev Anatoly Howe Andrew Mitchell Jonathan Lyashkov Victor Schlumberger Technology Corp. Li Robert Shell Mantilla Cesar Poteau Sandrine Raney Olina Shukla Shunahshep Haddix Grant Shell Chemicals Mogri Zen Kirk Shell E&P Geib Sonja Shell Global Solutions van Kuijk Sjoerd Dubey Sheila Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc. King Timothy Shell Global Solutions, Inc. Pretzer Lori Shell Global Solutions, U.S. Southwick Jeff Shell Sarawak XU GUAN LI Sinopec Exploration & Production Research Institute Yingcheng Sinopec Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology Yang Yuying SINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology Yuan Junjun Zhai Xiaodong

Dahanayake Manilal Solvay Ravikiran Ravi TIORCO LLC Waldman Tom Deligny Julien Total Levitt David Ma Kun morel danielle total Mateen Khalid TOTAL E&P R&T USA ren Guangwei Total E&P R&T USA Klimenko Alexandra Total S.A, PERL Metzger Andrew Tour Lab Graue Arne University of Bergen