Annual Report 2019 the 2019 Partners
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THE NATIONAL IOR CENTRE OF NORWAY Annual report 2019 The 2019 partners ConocoPhillips Observers Contents Management Team 4 Board Members 4 Technical Committee 5 Scientific Advisory Committee 5 About 6 Research Themes 7 Greetings from the Director 8 Greetings from the Chairman of the Board 9 Consortium Partners 10 Activity Highlights On the use of thermo-thickening polymers for in-depth mobility control – large scale testing 12 Developing the ensemble Kalman filter based approach for history matching 15 Coordinating Upscaling Workflow 16 Interpore – 3rd National Workshop on Porous Media 17 New management team 18 Great expectations from the Research Council of Norway 19 Researcher Profiles Mehul Vora 20 André Luís Morosov 21 Micheal Oguntola 21 Tine Vigdel Bredal 22 Arun Selvam 22 Panagiotis Aslanidis 23 William Chalub Cruz 23 Nisar Ahmed 24 Aleksandr Mamonov 24 Juan Michael Sargado 25 Runar Berge 25 Highlights from the PhD Defences PhD Defences 2019 26 Core scale modelling of EOR transport mechanisms 27 Smart Water for EOR from Seawater and Produced Water by Membranes 27 Wettability estimation by oil adsorption 28 CO2 Mobility Control with Foam for EOR and Associated Storage 28 Interaction between two calcite surfaces in aqueous solutions … 29 Research Dissemination, Conferences & Awards Lundin Norway shares all data from one field 30 PhD student Mehul Vora presented at OG21 31 Selected Papers 32 Media Contributions 2019 35 Who are we? 36 Publications 37 3 Management Team Ying Guo Tina Puntervold Randi Valestrand Centre Director Assistant Director Research Director Leader Theme 1 Leader Theme 2 Aksel Hiorth Sissel Opsahl Viig Svein M. Skjæveland Director of Academia Director of Field Advisor & Research Implementation Board Members Thierry Laupretre Chairman of the Board Aker BP REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE HOST INSTITUTION EXTERNAL OBSERVERS: UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER: Anders Soltvedt, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Øystein Lund Bø, Erik Søndenå, Petoro Dean of Faculty of Science & Technology Ingrid Anne Munz, Research Council of Norway REPRESENTATIVE FOR NORCE: DEPUTY MEMBERS: Erlend Vefring Helge Bøvik Larsen, University of Stavanger Research Director Sigmund Stokka, NORCE Johan Kristian Sveen, IFE REPRESENTATIVE FOR IFE: Martin Smedstad Foss Roar Kjelstadli, Aker BP Research Director Anne Skjærstein, Lundin Norway Cathrine Eliassen, Wintershall DEA REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE USER PARTNERS: Camilla Vavik Pedersen, Equinor Per Øyvind Seljebotn, Lundin Norway Sean Pedersen, ConocoPhillips Steinar Kristiansen, Wintershall DEA Elisabeth Birkeland, Equinor Mariann Dalland, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Kåre Vagle, ConocoPhillips Sølvi Amundrud, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 4 Technical Committee Robert Moe Head of Technical Committee ConocoPhillips MEMBERS: DEPUTY MEMBERS: Edvard Omdal, ConocoPhillips Egil Boye Petersen, Aker BP Roar Kjelstadli, Aker BP Knut Uleberg, Equinor Alf Birger Rustad, Equinor Amare Mebratu, Halliburton Ingrid Melien, Halliburton Anne Skjærstein, Lundin Norway Olav Flornes, Lundin Norway Andrea Reinholdtsen, Neptune Energy Mailin Seldal, Neptune Energy Jarle Haukås, Schlumberger Jan Bakke, Schlumberger Siroos Salimi, Vår Energy Knut Ingvar Nilsen, Vår Energi Johanna Normann Ravnås, Wintershall DEA Carl Jörg Petersen, Wintershall DEA Scientific Advisory Committee Professor Ann Muggeridge Professor William R. Rossen Imperial College, London TU Delft UK The Netherlands Professor Stephan Herminghaus Professor Yu-Shu Wu Max Planck Institute, Göttingen Colorado School of Mines Germany USA 5 About The National IOR Centre of Norway provides solutions for im- proved oil recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf through academic excellence and close cooperation with the industry. The world needs energy. Up to present day CE (formerly known as IRIS) and IFE are oil and gas have contributed to the prima- our research partners. Several other natio- ry energy by more than 80 %, and even in nal and international research groups, and the 2-degree scenario of the United Nations 9 oil and service companies, complete the more than 50 % of the total energy must Centre’s list of partners and collaborators. come from oil and gas. On the Norwegian Continental Shelf, more than 50 % of the The researchers in the Centre work actively total discovered resources are still left in in order to improve the oil recovery, whilst the ground. By extracting most of the disco- reducing costs and mitigating environmen- vered resources using existing infrastru- tal impact. To achieve this goal, it is impor- cture, we protect the environment while tant that all stakeholders work together, utilizing resources in the best possible way. and The National IOR Centre of Norway is an important arena for doing exactly this. The National IOR Centre of Norway pro- vides cost efficient and environmental- OVERALL AIM ly friendly solutions for improved oil The National IOR Centre of Norway will recovery on the Norwegian Continen- contribute to the implementation of cost tal Shelf through academic excellence efficient and environmentally friend- and close cooperation with the industry. ly technologies for improving oil reco- very on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. TWO YEARS LEFT Awarded by the Research Council of Nor- SECONDARY OBJECTIVES way (RCN) after a national competition, • Robust upscaling of reco- the Centre started up in December 2013. very mechanism observed on We were granted 5 + 3 years of financi- pore and core scale to field scale. al support by RCN. We are now ente- • Optimal injection strategies ba- ring phase II of the Centre’s lifetime. sed on total oil recovered, econ- omic and environmental impact. University of Stavanger is the host of the • Education of 20 PhD students and 8 post- Centre, and the research institutes NOR- docs during the lifetime of the Centre. 6 Research Themes THEME 1: MOBILE/IMMOBILE OIL & ly, as they don’t contain extra chemicals. EOR METHODS The environmental impact of using added In theme 1 the main goal is to understand, chemicals, such as polymers, is addressed model, and upscale the microscopic and through an improved understanding of the macroscopic displacement efficiency when optimal amount of chemicals needed to ef- various enhanced oil recovery (EOR) fluids ficiently displace the oil and the fate of the are injected into a porous rock. EOR fluids chemicals from the injector to the producer. interact with the rock, alter primary mi- neral phases, and their surface properties. THEME 2: MOBILE OIL – Some EOR fluids are non-Newtonian (e.g. RESERVOIR CHARACTERISATION TO polymeric fluids) and behave highly non-li- IMPROVE VOLUMETRIC SWEEP near in complex and time-dependent flow, In theme 2 we focus on improved reservoir which is relevant for porous media. Oth- management by developing improved tools er injection fluids, such as Smart Water (or for uncertainty quantification, simulation, low salinity water) interact with the mi- history matching, optimization, prediction, nerals to alter wettability in the reservoir. and decision making. This is done by; inte- grate information from of all types of data To understand these processes, and to solve (such as pressure data, production data, seis- related challenges we work at the submicron mic data, tracer data, geo-physical data, and scale to characterize the rock before and af- geological data into the field scale simula- ter flooding, and to quantify the changes in- tion models) in our work flow; by develo- duced by the injection water. We also work ping improved simulation tools capable of at core scale to investigate wettability and handle/simulate the complexity of different wettability alteration processes. And the dy- improved oil recovery (IOR) methods; and namics of polymeric liquids are investigated by developing new and improved tracers. experimentally by performing experiments in porous material at various scales. The expe- We put emphasis on real fields and aim to rimental results are interpreted using mole- develop methodologies that ease the deci- cular dynamic simulations, methods based sion making of a petroleum producing re- on statistical physics, and by extending Dar- servoir. The aim is to develop new and im- cy’s law. A multi-scale understanding of the proved methodologies that will support the EOR processes secures that the reservoir sca- evaluation and decision making with regards le models we develop are consistent with the to IOR/EOR pilots at the Norwegian Conti- underlying physical and chemical processes nental Shelf. This addresses the potential of taking place in the pore space. This, in turn, producing the resources in unswept areas allows us to evaluate, in a robust way, the po- as well as mobilizing the trapped resources tential of EOR operations for realistic cases. in swept areas. The research is focusing on challenges for the entire Norwegian Con- The EOR methods based on Smart Water tinental Shelf while demonstrating the im- are in principle environmentally-friend- proved methodologies on real field cases. 7 Greetings from the Director I am honored to serve The National IOR Centre of Norway as new Director in its last two years. I have been following the Centre and working alongside with many of the scientists and PhDs candidates from its very start, and I am proud to say that the Centre has made great scientific achievements and educated many future IOR brains. Yes, IOR does require more brains per barrel. We have, in the past 6 years, published around 150 high-impact paper, almost 700 con- ference presentations, numerous workshops