Tuesday 7th September
Wednesday 8th September
Thursday 9th September
Wettability Alteration: Fundamentals
9:00 am Introduction
9:10 am N. Morrow and G. Mason
Areas of crude oil/rock contact that govern the development of
mixed wet rocks
Low Salinity Waterflooding
9:00 am Remarks
9:10 am J. Buckley, and N. Morrow
Improved Oil Recovery by Low Salinity Waterflooding: A
Mechanistic Review
Surfactants
9:00 am Remarks
9.10 am A. Lohne., I. Fjelde., K. P. Abeysinghe and E.A.
Chukwudeme
Surfactant Flooding Mechanisms at Different Wetting
Conditions
9:40 am M.A. Fernø., T. Torsvik., S. Haugland and A. Graue
Optimizing dynamic wettability alteration
9:40 am A. Omekeh., I. Fjelde., A. Sarnowska., S. Evje and A.
Hiorth
Interaction between Minerals and Brines during Low Salinity
Water Flooding: Experiments and Simulations
10:10 am A. Rezaeidoust., T. Puntervold and T. Austad
Low Salinity Flooding in Sandstones: Experimental evidence
for a chemically induced pH gradient at the water-clay interface
10:40 am BREAK
Wettability Alteration: Colloidal Aspects
11:00 am T. Jiang., G.J. Hirasaki., C.A. Miller and S. Ng
Wettability Alteration of Clay in Solid-Stabilized Emulsions
9:40 am P.S. Hammond and E. Unsal
Effects of Surfactant on Wettability and Oil Recovery in a Pore
Network Model
10:10 am M. T. Dong and Q. Liu
Wettability alteration by magnesium ion binding in heavy
oil/brine/Na2CO3/sand systems
10:40 am BREAK
Oil Recovery
11:00 am N. Loahardjo., X. Xie., W. Winoto., J. Buckley and N.
Morrow
Mechanism of Improved Oil Recovery by Sequential Waterflooding
11:30 am N. Rezaei., O. Mohammadzadeh., R. Parsaei and I.
Chatzis
Experimental investigation of vapor extraction of bitumen in a
fractionally wetted porous medium
12:00 pm B. Bennett., L.R. Snowdon, S.R. Larter and I.D. Gates
Water film modification of reservoir properties in heavy oil and
bitumen reservoirs
12:30 pm LUNCH
11:30 am N. P. Khiabani., Z. Fakhroueian., M. Fallah., N.
Ostadmoradi, A. Bahramian and M. Sadeghi
Wettability Alteration Using Nanofluids
12:00 pm T.B.P. Oldenburg., B. Bennett and Larter, S.R.
Amphoterics, Petroleomics and Wettability
12:30 pm LUNCH
11:00 am A. Skauge, G. Kallevik and M. Delshad
Simulation of combined low salinity and surfactant injection
10:40 am BREAK
Spontaneous imbibition
11.00 pm P.S. Hammond and E. Unsal
Forced and Spontaneous Imbibition of Wettability Altering
Surfactant Solution in an Oil-Wet Capillary
11.30 pm S. Wickramathilaka., G. Mason., N.R. Morrow., J.J.
Howard and J.C. Stevens
Magnetic resonance imaging of oil recovery during spontaneous
imbibition
12.00 pm G..Mason and N. Morrow
Spontaneous imbibition into cores with different boundary
conditions.
12:30 pm LUNCH
Tuesday 7th September
12:30 pm LUNCH
Wettability Evaluation
1:30 pm C. Schulz., P. Jaeger and R. Egger
Wettability of Reservoir Rock Materials in High Pressure
Carbon Dioxide System
2:00 pm L. Zielinski., M. Hurlimann and P. Singer
Wettability determination from effective surface relaxivity as
measured by low-field NMR 2D diffusion-relaxation
experiments
2:30 pm S. Takahashi and A. R. Kovscek
Wettability Evaluation of Low-Permeability Siliceous Shale
Based on Electrical Surface Forces
3:00 pm BREAK
Wettability Alteration: Thermal
3:30 pm T. Al-Aulaqi., C. Grattoni., Q. Fisher and S. Al-Hinai
Crude oil/Brine/Silicate interaction at elevated temperature
4:00 pm M. Cimolai, and A. Kantzas
Thermally Induced Wettability Alteration in the BitumenSaturated Grosmont Carbonate
4:30 pm Poster presenters Forum
5:00 pm POSTERS
6:00 pm DINNER
Wednesday 8th September
12:30 pm LUNCH
Carbonates
1:30 pm S. J. Fathi., T. Austad., S. Strand., S. Frank and K.
Mogensen
Evaluation of Water-Based EOR in an Offshore Limestone
Reservoir: A Case Study
2:00 pm R. R. Ravari ., T. Austad and S. Strand
Care must be taken to use outcrop limestone cores to mimic
reservoir core material in SCAL linked to wettability alteration
2:30 pm J. Buiting
Wettability and the impact of COBR interactions on oil recovery
from carbonates
3:00 pm BREAK
Oil recovery and interfaces
3.30 pm M. Kunieda, Y. Liang, A. Ueda, T. Matsuoka,
S. Takahashi and H. Okabe
Modeling the structure properties of oil-water interface and the
wettability of oil/water/silica
4.00 pm R. Parsaei and I. Chatzis
Effects of macroscopic heterogeneities in wettability on the
recovery of waterflood residual oil using the Gravity-Assisted
Inert Gas Injection (GAIGI) process
4:30 pm S. Srinivasa., Z. Xu. and J. Masiliyah
Study of bitumen liberation from oil sands ore
5:00 pm POSTERS
6:00 pm DINNER
POSTERS
T. Al-Aulaqi., C. Grattoni., Q. Fisher and S. Al-Hinai
Crude oil-Brine interaction at elevated temperature
T.B.P. Oldenburg.., B. Bennett and S.R. Larter
Advanced Petroleomic’s
A. Zahid., Stenby E.H. and A.A. Shapiro
Advanced Waterflooding in Carbonate Reservoirs
M. Bataweel and H. Nasr-El-Din
Effect of Phase Behaviour on Wettability Alteration during Chemical Flooding
M.B. Alotaibi., P.T. Jaeger and H. A. Nasr-El-Din
Wettability of Crude Oil-Brine-Carbonate Rock at Elevated Pressure and Temperature Conditions
M.S. Afrapoli., E. Nikooee., S. Ostvar and O. Torsaeter
Pore Network Modeling of MIOR Processes: Major Features
S. Nathoo, Y. Kryachko, T. Jack, G. Vourdoow and E. J. Prenner
Development of screening assays for oil release from Talc or Tailing samples due to enhanced wettability by using biosurfactants.