EMS Energy Institute

Gas Flooding Research Project

Fifth Annual Meeting

August 24 - 25, 2010

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 Tuesday and Wednesday, August 24 - 25, 2010, 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.

Tuesday, August 24th (Software Demonstrations)


3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

Welcome and Overview of Gas Flooding Website and Toolkits
Lecture on “Reduced Methods for Two and Three-Phase Compositional Simulation”
Russ Johns

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Toolkit Demonstrations

Kaveh Ahmadi

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Dinner at UT Club

Wednesday, August 26th (Technical Presentations)


8:00 am - 8:30 am

Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30 am - 8:45 am

Project Update, Accomplishments, and Deliverables

Russ Johns

8:45 am - 9:15 am

Development of Miscibility for Various Oils and Injection Mixtures, Including Sour Gas (Improvement to Mixing Cell Model)
Kaveh Ahmadi and Russ Johns

9:15 am - 9:45 am

CO2 Flooding in Carbonates

Ashwin Venkatraman, Larry Lake, and Russ Johns

9:45 am - 10:15 am

Prediction of the Optimum WAG Performance
Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad and Larry Lake

10:15 am - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Three-Phase Capillary/Capillary Equilibrium in Oil-Wet Media (Project Completion)
Mohammad Mirzaei and David DiCarlo

11:15 am - 11:45 am

The Effect of Wettability on Three-Phase Relative Permeability During Gravity Drainage
Hassan Dehghanpour and David DiCarlo

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Foams and Emulsions Stabilized with Nanoparticles for Potential Conformance Control Applications
David Espinosa, Chun Huh, Steve Bryant, and Keith Johnston

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Upscaling of Miscible Gas Floods
Olaoluwa Adepoju, Larry Lake, and Russ Johns

2:00 am - 2:15 pm

Break

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Asphalene modeling using the SAFT EOS
Saeedeh Mohebbinia, Kamy Sepehrnoori, and Russ Johns

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Miscible Gas Flooding in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Ali Moinfar, Russ Johns, and Kamy Sepehrnoori

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Analytical Modeling of Three Phase Coning (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
Chonpati Phaiboonpalayoi and Russ Johns

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Wrap Up and Discussion of JIP Direction
Russ Johns

4:00 pm

End of Meeting

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Optional Laboratory Tours and Follow Up Discussions in CPE Building