15th Annual Meeting of the
Rice University Consortium on
Processes in Porous Media
Rice University
April 26, 2011
Consortium Members
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Addax
Baker - Hughes
Champion
Chevron
Conoco Phillips
Core Labs*
Exxon Mobil
Kinder Morgan
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Marathon
Oil Chem*
PTS*
Rhodia
Schlumberger
Shell
Saudi Aramco
TIORCO
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Faculty & Collaborators
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George J. Hirasaki
Clarence A. Miller
Walter G. Chapman
Ken Cox
Lisa Biswal
Michael S. Wong
Rafael Verduzco
Kishore Mohanty (UT)
Gary Pope (UT)
Keith Johnston (UT)
Quoc Nguyen (UT)
Kamy Sepehrnoori (UT)
Francisco (Paco) Vargas (PI)
Staff
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Maura Puerto (retired Exxon)
Olina Raney (PhD, Rice)
Amir Amini (PhD, Rice)
Anju Kurup (PhD, N. U. Singapore)
Current Ph.D. Students
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Mike Rauschhuber
Elton Yang
Robert Li
Jose Lopez
Neeraj Rohilla
Guangsheng Gu
Sumedh Warudkar
Sayantan Chatterjee
Kun Ma
Leyu Cui
Aparna Raju Sagi
Sai Panuganti
Hadi ShamsiJazeyi (2011)
Aarthi Muthuswamy (2011)
Undergraduate Students
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Yezi Dong
Ying Zhang
Nancy Huang
Kate Waldorf
Yimin Luo
Shrinidhi Rao
Jose Andres Novoa
Fan Meng
John Chapman
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Insoo Ro
Kelsey Wolak
Erte Xi
Deughyeong An
Tianlong Wang
Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry
•Robert Szafranski (1997), Exxon-Mobil
•Sho-Wei Lo (1999), Shell
•Dicksen Tanzil (2001), BRIDGES to Sustainability
•Gigi Qian Zhang (2001) Baker Hughes
•David Ting (2003), Shell
•Alejandro Pena (2003), Schlumberger, Bakersfield
•Jason Chen (2005), Marathon
•Leslie Zhang (2005), Westport
•Mark Flaum (2006 ), Schlumberger - Sugarland
•Busheng Li (2006), Shell
•Wei Yan (2006), Bectel, IPS
•Vivek Anand (2007), Schlumberger - Sugarland
Ph. D. graduates in oil & gas industry
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Shunhua Liu (2008), Oxy
Gaurav Bhatnagar (2008), Shell-Westhollow
Doris Gonzalez (2008), Schlumberger- OilPhase
Clint Aichele (2009), Conoco Phillips
Tianmin Jiang (2009), Schlumberger
Francisco Vagas (2009), The Petroleum Institute
Arjun Kurup (2009), Schlumberger (Saudi Arabia)
Robert Li (2011), Shell - Bellaire
Elton Yang (2011), Chevron - Richmond
Processes in Porous Media Consortium
• Focus Areas
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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
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Graduates
Theses
Preprints for publications
Computer code (upon request)
Department of Energy
• Detection and Production of Dynamic,
Heterogeneous Methane Hydrate Systems
• 2007-2011
• Jerry Dickens, Brandon Dugan, and Colin
Zelt (Earth Science)
• Priyank Jaiswal (Oklahoma State
University)
• Kishore Mohanty (UT)
Department of Energy
• Novel CO2 Foam Concepts and Injection
Schemes for Improving CO2 Sweep Efficiency
in Sandstone and Carbonate Hydrocarbon
Formations (2010-2013)
• Quoc Nguyen, UT
• Keith Johnston, UT
• Lisa Biswal, Rice
• Cost-share with Consortium
Proprietary Research
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Shell – High temperature & salinity surfactants
IOC – EOR, Middle East
National Oil Company – EOR (with UT, CSM, Stanford)
Kinder Morgan – Surfactant EOR in Carbonate
ADCO – CO2 Foam, with UT & PI (2010)
Manuscripts on: Website:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gjh/Consortium/
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Wettability Alteration of Clays in Solid Stabilized Emulsions
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Low IFT, Wettability, & Foam in Heterogeneous Systems
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Viscosity of Live BItumen from NMR
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Methane Hydrate in Heterogeneous Systems
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Separation of Produced Emulsions from Surfactant EOR
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Effects of clay wettability and process variables on diluted bitumen emulsions
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Analytical Theory for Sulfate-Methane Transition to Gas Hydrate Saturation
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Surfactant Systems For EOR In High-temperature, High-salinity Environments
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One-Third Rule for Hydrocarbons
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Surfactant Titration Manual
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Acid Number Titration Manual
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Kaolinite Zeta Potential
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NMR Response of Liquids and Natural Gas Mixtures
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Characterization and Rheology of Emulsions from Deepwater Fields
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Saturation Profiles via NMR Imaging
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Processes in Porous Media, 2011
April 26, 2011
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
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Coffee
George Hirasaki, State of the Consortium and Agenda
Leyu Cui, Evaluation of Betaine as Foam Booster
Robert Li, Foam Mobility Control & Wettability Alteration in Heterogeneous
Lisa Biswal, Micromodels for Foam in Porous Media
Kun Ma, Surfactant Adsorption on Carbonates
Amir Amini, HPLC Surfactant Analysis
Hadi Shamsi Jazeyi, Surfactant Adsorption Reduction
Coffee
Maura Puerto, Salinity Maps & Dynamic Emulsification
Jose Lopez Salinas, Foam at High Temperature and Salinity
Olina Raney, Diluted Bitumen Emulsions
Aparna Raju Sagi, Low Salinity, Low Temperature Carbonates
Neeraj Rohilla, Rate Dependent Displacement in Carbonate Rocks
Lunch
Agenda (afternoon)
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Elton Yang, Estimating Viscosity of Live Bitumen with NMR
Michael Rauschhuber, Oil Saturation from T2 – D Profiling
Anju Kurup, Asphaltene Deposition Simulator
Sai Ravindra Panuganti, Asphaltene Compositional Grading
Sayantan Chatterjee, Gas Hydrate in Heterogeneous Systems
Guangsheng Gu, Seismic Blanking in Hydrate Systems
Sumedh Warudkar, Alkanolamines for Carbon Capture
GJH, Advice from Consortium on way forward
Lab Visit
Attendees
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Terry Hagiwara
Aramco Services Company
Jackie Behles
Baker Hughes
Gigi Zhang
Baker Hughes Inc.
Mark Williams
Baker Hughes Inc.
Jason Fox
Champion Technologies
Jan Beetge
Champion Technologies
Dengen Zhou
Chevron
Marcos Briceno
ConocoPhillips
Terry Christian
ConocoPhillips
Liping Jia
ConocoPhillips
Qing Chen
ConocoPhillips
Robin Gupta
ExxonMobil
Loan Vo
ExxonMobil
Mark Beckman
ExxonMobil
Sergio Leonardi
ExxonMobil
Kyle Guice
ExxonMobil
George L Stegemeier GLS Engineering, Inc.
Jonathan Kwan
Kinder Morgan CO2
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Candace Craft
Marathon Oil
Hung-Lung Chen
Marathon Oil
Jason Chen
Marathon Oil Company
Peter Day
Marathon Oil Company
Mike Dunleavy
Marathon Oil Company
Benjamin Ramirez
Marathon Oil Company
Richard Rosen
Marathon Oil Company
Swapn Das
Marathon Oil Company
Edward Yang
Marathon Oil Company
Duy Nguyen
Nalco
Pauziyah Abdul Hamid PETRONAS Research
Arif Azhan Abdul Manap PETRONAS Research SB
Manoel Farias
PUC-RIO / PETROBRAS
Manilal Dahanayake
Rhodia
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Scott Wellington
Michael Wong
Walter Chapman
Olina Raney
George Hirasaki
Hadi ShamsiJazeyi
Sayantan Chatterjee
Robert Li
Kun Ma
Guangsheng Gu
Amir Amini
Sai Panuganti
Sibani Lisa Biswal
Anjushri Kurup
Sumedh Warudkar
Aarthi Muthuswamy
Clarence Miller
ELTON YANG
Gautam Kini
Michael Rauschhuber
Rafael Verduzco
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Alhasan Fuseni
Nick Heaton
Mark Flaum
Geza Horvath-Szabo
Julian Barnes
Rien Faber
Grant Haddix
Joseph Redican
Claudia Ishizawa
Kirk Raney
Robert Moene
Jeff Southwick
Carmen Reznik
Michael Poindexter
Aaron Sanders
Sayeed Abbas
TOM BURGHART
Danielle Morel
Khalid Mateen
Pascal GAUER
Maurice BOURREL
Saudi Aramco
Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Shell
Shell
Shell Chem
Shell Chemical
Shell E&P
Shell Exploration & Production
Shell Global Solutions
Shell Intl. E&P
Shell Oil
The Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company
TIORCO LLC
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PROFESSIONAL MASTERS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(MChE) AT RICE UNIVERSITY
An advanced interdisciplinary program that allows the candidate to integrate
engineering coursework in core areas of chemical engineering and energy
production with classes in management, economics, energy policy, sustainability
and environmental technologies.
MChE candidates complete 30 credit hours of coursework by choosing from a wide
range of Rice classes that include the following:
CHBE 571: Flow & Transport Through
NSCI 511: Science And Technology Policy
Porous Media I
NSCI 610: Management In Science And Engineering
CHBE 671: Flow & Transport Through
ECON 437: Energy Economics
Porous Media II
ECON 480: Environmental Economics
CHBE 560: Colloidal And Interfacial Phenomena
ARCH 613: Sustainable Design
CHBE 640: Metabolic Engineering For Biofuels
CEVE 307: Energy And The Environment
CHBE 594: Properties Of Polymers
CEVE 505: Engineering Project Management
CHBE 501: Fluid Mechanics And Transport Processes CEVE 520: Environmental Remediation Technologies
CHBE 590: Kinetics, Catalysis, And Reaction
POST 411: Energy Policy
Engineering
POLY 461: Politics, Risk, And Energy
CHBE 602: Physico-chemical Hydrodynamics
CHBE 611: Advanced Topics-thermodynamics
CHBE 615: Applications Of Molecular Simulation And
Statistical Mechanics
For more information and application:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~che/graduate/MChE_program.html