International academic collaboration

Rice University

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Prof. George Hirasaki, Assoc. Prof. Sibani Lisa Biswal

• Experimental Study of Foam Generation, Sweep Efficiency and Flow in a Fracture Network
• Foam injection
• Surfactants and chemical injection
• Screening surfactants for CO2 field pilot test

Texas A&M University

Petroleum Engineering

Assoc. Prof. David Schechter

• Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Recovery in Unconventional Liquid Reservoirs using CO2: A Look Ahead to the Future of Unconventional EOR

Stanford University

Department of Energy Resources Engineering

Prof. Anthony Kovscek

• Modeling foam displacement in fractures
• Visualization of Pore-level Displacement Mechanisms During CO2 Injection and EOR Processes
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• Pore-level displacement mechansims visualized in micro-models

Pennsylvania State University

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Assoc. Prof. Zuleima T. Karpyn, Assoc. Prof. Phillip M. Halleck

• CO2 Injections for Enhanced Oil Recovery Visualized with an Industrial CT-scanner

Imperial College London

Department of Earth Science & Engineering 

Prof. Martin Blunt 

• Pore-Scale Simulation of NMR Response in Carbonates
• Comparison of residual oil cluster size distribution, morphology and saturation in oil-wet and water-wet sandstone

Kansas University

Tertiary Oil Recovery Project (TORP)

Prof. Jenn-Tai Liang and Reza Barati

• The Effect of Cr(III) Acetate-HPAM Gel Maturity on Washout from Open Fractures

New Mexico Tech

Petroleum Recovery Research Center

Randall S. Seright, Jill Buckely

• Gel Dehydration by Spontaneous Imbibition of Brine from Aged Polymer Gel
• Crude oil analysis
• polymer gel injection
• mobilty control

University of New Brunswick

MRI Research Centre

Prof. Bruce J. Balcom

• T₂ distribution mapping profiles with phase-encode MRI

University of Wyoming

Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute

Prof. Norman R. Morrow, Prof. Geoffrey Mason

• Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Estimated From a Single Spontaneous Imbibition Test
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the development of fronts during spontaneous imbibition
• Spontaneous counter-current imbibition outwards from a hemi-spherical depression
• Oil Production by Spontaneous Imbibition from Sandstone and Chalk Cylindrical Cores with Two Ends Open

University of Bordeaux

TREFLE-Ensam

Prof. Henri Bertin

• Experimental Study of Foam Flow in Fractured Oil-Wet Limestone for Enhanced Oil Recovery