1. 18th Annual Meeting of the Rice University Consortium on Processes in Porous Media
April

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. Department of Energy
Novel CO2 Foam Concepts and Injection Schemes for Improving CO2 Sweep Efficiency in Sandstone and Carbonate Hydrocarbon Formations ( )
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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. 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

15. 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. …

16. 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

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

18. 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.

19. 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

20. 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