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Chemical EOR
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Overview
Summary
A research program that investigates issues pertaining to chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) was launched during the summer of 2006. The program, directed by Dr. Gary A. Pope, brings together a team of dedicated faculty members, research associates, graduate students and laboratory technicians. The excellent research infrastructure available within the Center of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at UT Austin is being utilized to accomplish important new advances in chemical EOR.
Research Projects
- Development of New Surfactants and Polymers for EOR (Pope, Britton, Huh)
- Modeling Chemical EOR (Delshad, Huh, Pope, Balhoff)
- Chemical EOR Experiments to Change Wettability (Nguyen, Delshad, Pope)
- Modeling the Effect of Pressure on Microemulsion Phase Behavior (Johns, Delshad, Pope)
- Scaling Groups for Screening of SP/ASP Flooding (Johns, Delshad, Lake)
- Understanding the Mechanisms in Low Salinity Waterflooding and Polymerflooding (Lake, Pope, Bryant)
- pH Sensitive Polymers for Novel Conformance and Mobility Control Applications (Sharma, Huh, Bryant)
- Novel EOR Foam (Nguyen, Huh, Pope)
Organization and Funding
The research program is directed by Dr. Gary A. Pope and brings together several faculty members, research associates, laboratory technicians and graduate students.
To ensure adequate progress on the selected projects a funding level of $50,000 per company per year is solicited. Funding is distributed to the research groups constituting the research program based on the scope of the research proposed and the requirements for laboratory research. A workshop will be organized at the conclusion of the first year's research to present research results to the industrial affiliates and to solicit feedback.
Please see a sample agreement (MS Word format) for more specific participation information.