Third Annual Meeting
September 25 - 26, 2008
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (CPE) Building
2601 Speedway | Austin, Texas 78712 | 512-471-3161
Brons Conference Room (CPE 2.236)
The University of Texas at Austin
The Gas Flooding Research Project annual technical meeting was
held on Thursday and Friday, September 25-26, 2008, in Austin, Texas.
The first day of the meeting was optional and was intended for software
and toolkit demonstrations.
Please note: password required to view presentations.
Thursday, September 25th (Software
Demonstrations)
Friday, September 26th (Technical
Presentations)
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8:00 am - 8:30 am
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Coffee and light breakfast
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8:30 am - 8:45 am
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Project
Update, Accomplishments, and Deliverables
Russ Johns
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8:45 am - 9:15 am
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Development of Miscibility for Various Oils and
Injection Mixtures, Including Sour Gas (Mixing Cell Model Results)
Kaveh Ahmadi and Russ Johns
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9:15 am - 9:45 am
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Compositional Simulation Using a Simplified Phase
Behavior Model (End of Project Report)
Meghdad Roshanfekr and Russ Johns
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9:45 am - 10:15 am
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Workflows for Development Optimization and Value of
Information Analysis in Gas Flooding (End of Project Report)
Chris Jablonowski and Quoc Nguyen
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10:15 am - 10:30 am
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Break
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10:30 am - 11:15 am
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Importance and Implications of Dispersion in EOR
Larry Lake
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11:15 am - 11:45 am
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Impact of Heterogeneity and Dispersion on the
Design of WAG Processes
Gholamreza Garmeh and Russ Johns
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11:45 am - 1:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Advanced Phase Behavior Modeling for Compositional
Simulation
Part I: Reduced Method Implementation in UTCOMP
Part II:
Robust Three-Phase Flash Calculations
Ryosuke Okuno, Kamy Sepehrnoori, and Russ Johns
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2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Inexpensive pH-triggered Polymer Microgels for Deep
Conformance Control
Steve Bryant and Farshad Lalehrokh
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2:30 am - 2:45 pm
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Break
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Foams and Emulsions Stabilized with Nanoparticles
for Potential Conformance Control Applications (1)
Foams and Emulsions Stabilized with Nanoparticles
for Potential Conformance Control Applications (2)
Elliott Hu, Chun Huh, Steve Bryant, and Keith Johnston
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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
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The Effect of Wettability on Three-Phase Relative
Permeability During Gravity Drainage
David DiCarlo
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3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
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Proposals for New Topics (5 –
10
minutes each)
1) Evaluation of Lab-Scale Sweep Efficiency in
Quarter 5-Spot for WAG//Foam Floods
Kishore K. Mohanty
2) Prediction of the Optimum WAG Performance
Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad and Larry Lake
3) Why Have Gas Floods Worked – Correlation of Key
Factor
Gholamreza Garmeh and Russ Johns
4) Noniterative Approach to Four Component CV Gas
Floods and Enhanced Black-Oil
Meghdad Roshanfekr and Russ Johns
5) Three-Phase Capillary/Capillary Equilibrium in
Oil-Wet Media
David DiCarlo
6) Analytical Solutions to Capillary Effects in
Compositional Displacements
David DiCarlo
7) Robust, Accurate, and Fast Four-Phase EOS
Modeling
Mohammad Javaheri, Russ Johns, and Kamy Sepehrnoori
8) Workflows for Development Optimization and Value
of Information Analysis in Gas Flooding, Part 2: Case Study for the
‘TBD’ Field
Chris Jablonowski |
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Wrap Up and Discussion of JIP Direction
Russ
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4:30 pm
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End of Meeting
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4:40 pm - 5:30 pm
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Optional Laboratory Tours and Follow Up Discussions
in CPE Building
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