Innovations in Improved Oil Recovery & Tracer Applications: Field Insights and Emerging Technologies

Registration Link: TORP IOR Workshop

Sponsorship Link: Donor Sponsorships for TORP IOR Workshop

Dates: November 19-20 

Day 1 – 8:00 to Noon       Miscible and Immiscible Floods

8:00 to 8:15             Opening Remarks (Reza Barati)

8:15 to 9:00             CCUS in shales, Lanny Schoeling 

9:00 to 9:45             Immiscible gas injection in Skinner sand, Oklahoma, Paul Trost

9:45 to 10:30          TORP update on Cedar Hills Surfactant Polymer Project 

10:30 to 11:15       Shale Ingenuity Update, Robert Downey 

11:15 to Noon         Field Demonstration of CCUS in the Bakken, EERC   

Day 1 – Keynote Talk and Discussion Over Lunch, Dean Formation Development, Steve Melzer

Day 1 – 1:00 to 5:00         Wellbore Integrity, Injection Equipment, and Inflation 

1:00 to 1:45             Gel treatment: IOR and wellbore integrity, Randy Prater, Polymer Technologies

1:45 to 2:30             High volume diaphragm pumps – an economic alternative to triplex and horizontal pumps for water injection, Kyle Roby, Tom Larson, Waterflood Equipment, LLC.

2:30 to 3:15             Inflation in the oil patch, Ted Fuchs, Swift Services, Inc

3:15 to 4:00             New injection equipment/strategies, Kyle Roby, Tom Larson, Waterflood Equipment, LLC.

4:00 to 4:45             IOR regulations, Sabrina Hamner, Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission

Day 2 – 8:00 to Noon        

8:15 to 9:00             Fundamentals for use of tracers and their applications in IOR, Patrick Hays and Mariano Guerrico, Tracerco 

9:00 to 9:45             Lessons Learned from Interwall Tracer Tests, Wei Tian, Resmetrics 

9:45 to 10:30        Use of florescent qualitative tracers and quantitative anhydrous ammonia and copper sulfate, Kansas Case Studies, Thomas Larson, President, Larson Engineering, Inc. and Josh Waddell, Area Manager, ChampionX/SLB. 

10:30 to 11:15        Anton Irish: Multi-Disciplinary Surveillance and Lessons Learned in CO₂ Flood Conformance, James Milton, Corelab

11:15 to 12:00       Using DNA-Nanoparticle Tracers for Subsurface Diagnostics, DSO Sarah Comstock and Mahmoud Asadi  

Day 2 – Keynote Talk and Discussion Over Lunch: Unconventional drilling, completions and production enhancement using tracers, Patrick Hays and Mariano Guerrico, Tracerco 

Day 2 – 1:00 to 5:00         

1:00 to 1:45             Use of Single Well Tracer Evaluations, Charlie Carlilse, CEO and President, Chemical Tracers Inc. 

1:45 to 2:30             Horizontal Fractured Waterflood Conformance Case History, Cole Mombourquette, Corelab 

2:30 to 3:15             Use of Tracers to Measure the Surfactant Huff and Puff Performance in Unconventional Wells, Mariano Guerrico, Claudio Ramos, Tracerco 

3:15 to 4:00             Microbial assisted waterflooding (MAW)- past, present, and the future, Phillip Launt, RAM Biochemicals, Inc.