Tuesday, April 23
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218132 | Cyclic Gas Injection EOR Pilot In Tight Viking Sand Pool |
1100-1130 | 218198 | Foam Flood In Yates Reservoir For Improving Oil Recovery |
1130-1200 | 218154 | Huff-n-puff Foam Injection In Naturally Fractured Carbonates Using Supercritical CO2 |
Alternate | 218284 | Co-optimization Of CO2-EOR Strategies Considering The Spatio-temporal Sequence Prediction Of CO2 Flooding And Sequestration |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218229 | Unveiling The Enigma Of Waterflood Inefficiency: A Multifaceted Analysis Of Geological, Petrophysical, And Reservoir Dynamics - A Case Study In A Morrowan Clastic Reservoir. |
1100-1130 | 218236 | Numerical Study On Tackling Microbial Reservoir Souring During Engineered Water Injection |
1130-1200 | 218157 | Investigating Imbibition Rate And Oil Recovery Mechanisms From Fractured Formations By Hybrid EOR Approaches |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218269 | Milne Point Field Polymer Flood Update And Further Expansion |
1100-1130 | 218239 | Full Field Polymer Flooding Development Concept In Nimr Oil Fields With Horizontal Injectors And Strong Bottom Aquifer |
1130-1200 | 218246 | Aqueous Ketone Solution For Wettability Alteration In High-salinity-high-temperature Carbonate Reservoirs |
Alternate | 218180 | Chemical Tracer Application to Compare Naphthalene Sulfonic Acid and Fluorobenzoic Acid as Part of Polymer Field Trial Project |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | Invited Presenter_Mohamad Salman | |
1100-1130 | 218278 | First Nanoparticle-Based EOR Project In Japan: Field Pilot Test |
1130-1200 | 218261 | A 2D Visualization Study Of Polymer-Alternating-Gas Flood for Heterogeneous Reservoirs |
Alternate | 218268 | Chemical Osmosis-driven Thermodynamically Coupled Processes: Mechanistic Insights Into Oil Recovery From Core-scale Experiments |
Alternate | 218248 | Does Interfacial Viscoelasticity Increase Oil Recovery At Very High Temperature And Salinity In Carbonates? |
Greg Lalicker is the Chief Executive Officer of Hilcorp Energy Company, assuming this role in 2017. Prior to joining Hilcorp, he was with BHP Petroleum in Midland, Houston, London and Melbourne as well as McKinsey & Company where he worked in their Houston, Abu Dhabi and London offices. He joined Hilcorp’s leadership team in 2006 as Executive Vice President Exploration and Production and was promoted to President in 2011. Greg graduated as a Petroleum Engineer from the University of Tulsa in 1982. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration and a law degree.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | Invited Presenter - Caner Karacaer | |
1400-1430 | 218146 | Establishing Target Oil In The Transition Zone Of A Major Oil Field Under Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage |
1430-1500 | 218279 | Lessons Learned From Multiple Field Implementations Of Foam EOR Technology In Conventional And Unconventional Reservoirs |
Alternate | 218168 | Flow Reversibility In Hydrogen Storage In Subsurface Aquifers |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218225 | Numerical Interpretation Of Core Flood Experiments For Low Salinity Water With And Without A Boosting Agent Using Ensemble Smoother With Multiple Data Assimilation |
1400-1430 | 218184 | Channeling Control and Deep Chemical Conformance Technologies: Colombian and Global Treatments Review |
1430-1500 | 218190 | Low Dosage Novel Surfactant Technology For Improving Polymer Injectivity In Atlee Buffalo Oil Pools |
Alternate | 218282 | A Data-drive Approach To Optimize Wag Injection In A Large Carbonate Field |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218189 | Improved Capillary Desaturation Model For Carbonate Reservoirs |
1400-1430 | 218214 | Polymer Solution Preparation and Quality Control at Milne Point |
1430-1500 | 218213 | Full Field Polymer Flooding Project - Principles And Challenges At The Kalamkas Oilfield |
Alternate | 218186 | Low-Tension-Gas Flood in a High-Temperature and Heterogeneous Sandstone Reservoir |
Alternate | 218271 | Synergistic Effects Of Binary Surfactant Systems For Enhanced Oil Recovery In Carbonates |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218244 | Effect Of Nano-silica Synthesized From Rice Husk On Low Salinity Water Flooding |
1400-1430 | 218172 | Functional Components In Low Salinity Waterflood Forming Micro-dispersion Phase Via Fluid-fluid Interaction In Carbonate Reservoirs |
1430-1500 | 218262 | Evaluation Of A Wettability Modifier On Improving Oil Recovery In Fractured Reservoirs |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218237 | Review Of Ongoing CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Operations In Wyoming, USA |
1600-1630 | 218253 | A Novel On-chip Oil Swelling Measurement Platform For Gas Injection EOR Processes |
1630-1700 | 218156 | The Effect Of Small Molecule Gas-soluble Polymers On Minimum Miscibility Pressure During Co2 Injection |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218208 | Lessons Learned From The Implementation Of Two Thermally Active Polymer Campaigns As An In-depth Conformance Technology: Yariguí Field, Colombia |
1600-1630 | 218241 | Untethered Downhole Viscosity Logging For EOR Polymer Fluid Degradation Monitoring |
1630-1700 | 218275 | Subsurface Waterflood Management Improvement: The Art Of Reservoir Connectivity Characterization |
Alternate | 218201 | South Oman Polymer Project: A Decade Of Operational Excellence And Comprehensive Reservoir Monitoring And Surveillance |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218207 | Selection Of EOR Polymers For Carbonates From Laboratory Scale To Yard Scale: Observations And Insights |
1600-1630 | 218139 | Enhancing ASP Flood Design: Integrating Pilot Learnings, Lab Re-optimization And Field Analogues Before Commercial Implementation - A Case Study Of India |
1630-1700 | 218226 | Deciphering The Potential Of Surfactant-assisted CO2 Mobility Control: Insights Into The Transient Foam State |
Alternate | 218233 | Polymer Injectivity In Low Permeability Carbonate Cores: Impacts Of Polymer Filtration, Mechanical Shearing, And Oil Presence |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218270 | Novel Thermal Stimuli-responsive Surfactants To Reduce Operation Costs For Chemical Flooding |
1600-1630 | 218179 | Aqueous Nanobubble Dispersion Of CO2 For Enhanced Oil Recovery - Coreflooding And Huff-n-puff Experiments |
1630-1700 | 218143 | Co-injection Of Surfactant And Gas In Unconventional Reservoirs |
Alternate | 218205 | The Investigation into Carbonated Water as Pre-fracturing Fluid To Improve Shale Oil Recovery By CT Online Scanning and Imbibition Experiments |
Wednesday, April 24
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218164 | Numerical Evaluation Of The Carbonate Acid Stimulation Coupling With CO2 Flooding |
0900-0930 | 218195 | Experimental Characterization to Support A FAWAG Project in an Offshore Pre-salt Field |
0930-1000 | 218259 | Case Study Of Gas Flaring Mitigation Through Optimized Gas Re-injection While Improving The Recovery In High-temperature Offshore Reservoirs |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218200 | Case Study: Assessment Of Predictive Capability Of Reservoir Simulators For Waterfloods In Carbonates: How Realistic Is My Simulation Model? |
0900-0930 | 218192 | Streamline-based Robust Rate Allocation Optimization For Polymer Flooding Considering Geological Uncertainty |
0930-1000 | 218274 | Can Low Salinity Wastewater Act As “Smartwater” For Improved Oil Recovery In Carbonates? |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218281 | Redesign Of A Mature Oil Field With More Than 90-years Of Production History: Reservoir Characterization And Modeling Of The CañAdon Perdido Field, Argentina |
0900-0930 | 218219 | Recent Advances In Modeling Polymer Flooding |
0930-1000 | 218260 | An Experimental Investigation Of Polymer Enhanced CO2 Foam Flooding: Foam Stabilization And CO2 Mobility Control |
Alternate | 218159 | Low Molecular Weight Sodium Polyacrylate To Minimize Polymer Retention In Clayey Formations |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218202 | An Improved Reservoir Understanding Of The Impact Of Initial Oil Composition And Residual Oil Saturation On Brine Composition And Calcite Scaling During Co2 Wag Eor In Carbonate Reservoirs |
0900-0930 | 218147 | Numerical Studies of Unstable Fingering Flow in a Water-oil System |
0930-1000 | 218177 | A CO2-modified Surfactant For Chemical Flooding And Reducing Carbon Emission |
Alternate | A Systematic Experimental Study of Low Salinity, Carbonated Water and Low Salinity Carbonated Water EOR Injection Schemes in Carbonate Reservoir Conditions |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218171 | Field Injectivity Improvement In Heavy Oil Carbonate Reservoirs: Effective Surfactant Formulations For Lower Permeability Carbonates |
1100-1130 | 218150 | The Effect Of Polyethylene Oxide On Residual Oil Saturation Of Low Permeability Carbonates |
1130-1200 | 218149 | Hot Oil Now A Successful Optimization Acceleration Project, Safer, Faster And Hotter: A Case Study Of Optimization Challenges In A Thermal Steam Flood Field, South Of Oman |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | Invited Presenter_David Smith | |
1100-1130 | 218181 | Designing An In-depth Conformance Gel System For Carbonate Reservoirs |
1130-1200 | 218220 | Improve Waterflood Vertical Conformance For A Heavy Oil Multi-layer Sandstone Reservoir. A Case Study From South Of Oman Field. |
Alternate | 218230 | A Novel Polymer Gel System for In-Depth Water Conformance in High Temperature and High Salinity Reservoir |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218134 | A Data-based Continuous And Predictive Viscosity Model For The Oil-surfactant-brine Microemulsion Phase |
1100-1130 | 218283 | Development And Evaluation Of Novel Emulsion And Foam Breakers For Chemical Eor Applications |
1130-1200 | 218173 | Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Experiences in Colombia: Field Pilots Review |
Alternate | 218266 | Insights Into Oil Bank Propagation In Reservoirs Under Bottom Aquifer Drive During Polymer Flooding |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218135 | Surfactant Huff 'n' Puff Field Trials In Eagle Ford Shale - A Treatment Design Comparative Analysis |
1100-1130 | 218257 | Microscopic Visualization Experiment Of High Temperature And High Pressure Co2-c2H6/DME Displacement in Tight Reservoirs |
1130-1200 | 218151 | Fracture-fluid Chemistry Optimization To Improve Hydrocarbon Recovery For Shale And Tight Assets |
Alternate | 218158 | Evaluation Of Electroassisted Carbonated Water Injection (ECWI) In A Tight Reservoir: Outstanding Performance Of Enhancing Oil Recovery And CO2 Storage Capacity |
Dr. Ali A. Yousef is principal scientist and Chief Technologist of Reservoir Engineering Technology Division at the Saudi Aramco’s Upstream Advanced Research Center. He has more than 30 years of experience in upstream research and technology. Since joining Saudi Aramco, he has been involved in several applied research projects focusing on Waterflooding, Improved Oil Recovery (IOR), Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), and Advanced Reservoir Evaluation/Monitoring. He is currently overseeing the implementation of several mega scale pilots on CO2-EOR, SmartWater and field deployment of electromagnetic (EM) based technologies, advanced tracers, magnetic nanomappers for improved/enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir evaluation & monitoring application, and also zero liquid discharge (ZLD) produced water management. He led the development of Upstream sustainability R&D including CO2 mineralization, H2S to H2 conversion, and geothermal energy roadmaps.
Dr. Yousef has written over 120 conference papers, 60 journal publications, 2 text books, and has 61 granted patents, and more than 50 pending patent applications. He chaired several SPE Workshops and Forums, helped organizing several petroleum engineering related conferences, and taught courses on waterflooding and Improved/Enhanced Oil Recovery.
Dr. Yousef has received the 2015 Saudi Aramco President and CEO Excellence Award and the 2016 SPE IOR Pioneer Award. He was recognized by the Custodian of Two Holy Mosques in 2018, received World Oil 2020 and 2022 awards for best water management program, 2023 Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation, 2023 Aramco Excellence Award, and 2023 Suzanne West Environmental Excellence Award for successful field demonstration. He is the recipient of the 2021 SPE Distinguished Membership, and also 2023 SPE Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding contributions to the society/profession. He has also been elected as 2021 Fellow of Energy Institute (FEI), the highest level of EI recognition awarded to Energy’s leaders and influencers.
Yousef holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from KFUPM and MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218153 | A Comprehensive Approach To Modelling Air Injection Based Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes |
1400-1430 | 218227 | Quantifying Polymer Injectivity And Performance In The Milne Point Oil Field |
1430-1500 | 218145 | Modeling Phase Behaviour Of Solvents/Water/Heavy Oil Systems Under Reservoir Conditions With The PC-SAFT Equation Of State |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218235 | A New Physics-based Co2 EOR Screening Tool For Offshore Applications |
1400-1430 | 218231 | How Polymer Flooding Reduces CO2 Emissions And Energy Consumption - An Exergy Return On Exergy Investment Case Study |
1430-1500 | 218206 | Evaluation Of Future Co2Injection In Denver City Field For Enhanced Oil Recovery And Co2Storage. |
Alternate | 218232 | Selected Recommended Practices For Increasingthe Efficiency And Accuracy Of Co2 Sequestration Models |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | 218204 | Enhanced Fill-up Response And Recovery With Secondary Polymer Injection Vs. Tertiary Polymer Injection: A Field-scale Pilot |
1400-1430 | 218223 | Core-to-field Scale Simulations Of Low Salinity Polymer (LSP) Flooding In Carbonate Reservoirs Under Harsh Conditions |
1430-1500 | 218211 | Performance Overview And Current Status Of Heavy Oil Polymer Floods In Saskatchewan Canada: Opportunities |
Alternate | 218216 | Pattern Recognition For Wettability Alteration With Surfactants In Carbonate Reservoirs By Using Machine Learning |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1330-1400 | Better Understanding of Polymer Behavior in Porous Media Allowing Reducing OPEX of EOR Projects | |
1400-1430 | Modeling Of Viscous Instability in Compositional Gas and WAG Injections | |
1430-1430 | The Role of Partitioning Inter-well Traces (PITT) in Determining Remaining Oil Saturation (ROS) and Sweep Efficiency |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218255 | Critical Thresholds For Deep CO2 Foam Generation: Effects Of Injected Quality, Surfactant Concentration And Permeability |
1600-1630 | 218155 | Self-granulated Thermoplastic Elastic Particles For Fracture Conformance Control Of Harsh Reservoirs |
1630-1700 | 218133 | Lessons Learned From Laboratory Study and Field Application of Re-crosslinkable Preformed Particle Gels (RPPG) for Conformance Control in Mature Oilfields |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218160 | Relative Permeability Modeling For Co2 Storage Using Physically Constrained Artificial Neural Networks |
1600-1630 | 218251 | Multi-scale Optimization Of Three-million-ton-class CCUS Project In The Largest Oilfield In China: Zone Control Technology Of Large PV CO2 Flooding |
1630-1700 | 218254 | Techno-Economic-Environmental Analysis Of CO2 Storage And EOR In An Underdeveloped Field |
Alternate | 218163 | Numerical Modeling Assessment Of CO2 - Eor And Sequestration Potential In A Light-oil Carbonate Reservoir |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218264 | Optimizing Enhanced Oil Recovery: The Benefits Of Preceding ASP and SP Floods With Polymer Flooding |
1600-1630 | 218272 | Polymer Flooding, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From Lessons Learned From Field Practices |
1630-1700 | 218242 | Associative Polymer Propagation, Pressure Response, And Recovery |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1530-1600 | 218280 | Laboratory Investigation Of A Novel Hybrid Surfactant-gas Enhanced Oil Recovery For Tight Oil Reservoirs |
1600-1630 | 218238 | Hydraulic Fracturing And Flowback In The Heterogeneous Unconventional Formation: Do Water Blocks Still Play A Role? |
1630-1700 | 218165 | Synergistic Effects Between Supercritical Co2 And Diluted Microemulsion On Enhanced Oil Recovery In Shale Oil Reservoirs |
Thursday, April 25
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218258 | Machine Learning-enhanced Forecasting For Efficient Water-flooded Reservoir Management |
0900-0930 | 218138 | Chemical Eor Field Support Including Surfactant Blending Studies And Quality Control For Shale And Tight Assets |
0930-1000 | 218142 | First Field Implementation Of A Universal Method To Determine Polymer Concentration In Production Fluids During Polymer Flooding Operations Using Size Exclusion Chromatography |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218267 | Inhomogeneous Fluid Transport Modeling Of Gas Injection In Shale Reservoirs Considering Fluid-solid Interaction And Pore Size Distribution |
0900-0930 | 218187 | Convolutional Neural Networks To Estimate Residual Oil Saturation Through Partitioning Inter-well Tracer Tests |
0930-1000 | 218209 | Comprehensive Enthalpy-based Phase Behavior for EOS-based Compositional Thermal Simulation |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218250 | Measurements And Modeling of Polyacrylamide Polymers Viscosities For Chemical for Applications |
0900-0930 | 218224 | Deploying Polymer Flood in a Secondary Recovery Mode Using Horizontal Injectors in a Complex Heavy Oil Field in the South of the Sultanate of Oman |
0930-1000 | 218144 | Carbonate Wettability Alteration: Core Flooding Test Under Reservoir Conditions With Carbonate And Oil Samples From The Brazilian Pre-salt. |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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0830-0900 | 218210 | Miscible Wag Management of a Mature CO2 Flood : A Streamline-Based Approach |
0900-0930 | 218245 | Use Of Polymer Flooding To Enhance Oil Recovery From The Largest Oil-bearing Clastic Reservoir In The South Of The Sultanate Of Oman |
0930-1000 | 218263 | Field Techniques For Accurate Back Produced Polymer Quantification For Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218169 | Carbon Footprint And Energy Intensity Assessment For Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Based On Polymer Injection: A Colombian Case Study |
1100-1130 | 218228 | Maximizing Steam Distribution Performance To Prevent Forced Steam Release In A Steam-flooded Oil Field |
1130-1200 | 218185 | Integrated Asset Modeling Of A Coupled Reservoir For Production Optimization |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218194 | An Experimental Evaluation Of A Hybrid EOR Method Combining Low-Tension-Gas And Polymer-Gel |
1100-1130 | 218212 | Experimental Evaluation Of Using Treated Produced Water For IOR/EOR: A New Sustainability Frontier |
1130-1200 | 218249 | Sustainable On-off Polymer Injection Reduces More Than 50% Co2 Emissions, Materials Demand, And Water Use By Energy Storage In Formation Compressibility Achieving Equal Recovery Factor As Continuous Polymer Injection. |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218215 | Adsorption Kinetics Of Copolymers And Sulfonated Polymers For Enhanced Oil Recovery |
1100-1130 | 218166 | Surfactant-polymer Flooding-Coupling the Development to a Previous Mobile-Modular Polymer Development |
1130-1200 | 218196 | Synergistic Impact Of Low Salinity And Surfactant On Wettability Alteration In Carbonates |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218175 | Experimental Investigation Of Air Flux Impact On Reactions Occurring During In-situcombustion In Dolomite Reservoirs - Implications For Air Injection Strategies |
1100-1130 | 218273 | A Holistic EOS Model For Characterization of Northern Kuwait Extra-Heavy Oil Mixed with Liquid Solvents |
1130-1200 | 218197 | Understanding The Phase Behavior Of The Steam-Flue Gas Hybrid Process As A Strategy To Improve Oil Recovery And Reduce Carbon Intensity |
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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1030-1100 | 218137 | Recovery-Impacting Petrophysical Alterations Of CO2-EOR Application In Carbonate Formations: Case Study On North Dakota’s Upper Red River |
1100-1130 | 218176 | Application Of Koval’s Theory To Low Salinity Waterflooding And The Hybrid Of Low Salinity Waterflooding And Polymer Flooding |
1130-1200 | 218252 | Multicomponent Gas Transport Modeling In Nanoporous Media With Adsorption |