Online TORP Workshop on 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 8:05             Opening Remarks (Reza Barati)

8:05 to 8:45             CCUS in shales, Lanny Schoeling 

8:45 to 9:25             Immiscible gas injection in Skinner sand, Oklahoma, Paul Trost

9:25 to 10:05          TORP update on Cedar Hills Surfactant Polymer Project 

10:05 to 10:45       Novel Processes to Boost Oil Recovery from Shale Formations, Shale Ingenuity LLC, Robert Downey 

10:45 to 11:25        Field Demonstration of CCUS in the Bakken, EERC   

Day 1 – Dean Formation Developments Keynote Talks and Discussion, 

11:25 to Noon: Dean Formation Development, Steve Melzer

Noon to 12:35        Waterflood Feasibility in the Dean Formation, Jeff Rutledge, QPlus Energy, LLC

12:35 to 1:00          Discussion Session: Insights for the Midcontinent Region

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

1:00 to 1:40             Gel treatment: IOR and wellbore integrity, Randy Prater, Mehdi Salehi, Polymer Technologies

1:40 to 2:20             High volume diaphragm pumps – an economic alternative to triplex and horizontal pumps for water injection, Kyle Roby, Tom Larson, Waterflood Equipment, LLC.

2:20 to 3:00             Inflation in the oil patch, Ted Fuchs, Swift Services, Inc

3:00 to 3:40             New injection equipment/strategies, Kyle Roby, Tom Larson, Waterflood Equipment, LLC.

3:40 to 4:20             Enhanced Oil Recovery in America’s Unconventional Oil Plays, Jose Zaghloul, Continental Resources

4:20 to 5:00             IOR regulations, Sabrina Hamner, Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission

Day 2 – 8:00 to Noon        

8:00 to 8:40             Fundamentals for use of tracers and their applications in IOR, Patrick Hays and Mariano Guerrico, Tracerco 

8:40 to 9:20             Lessons Learned from Interwall Tracer Tests, Wei Tian, Resmetrics 

9:20 to 10:00          Horizontal Fractured Waterflood Conformance Case History, Cole Mombourquette, Corelab 

10:00 to 10:40        Anton Irish: Multi-Disciplinary Surveillance and Lessons Learned in CO₂ Flood Conformance, James Milton, Corelab

10:40 to 11:00       Using DNA-Nanoparticle Tracers for Subsurface Diagnostics, DSO Sarah Comstock and Mahmoud Asadi  

Day 2 – Keynote Talk and Discussion: 

11:00 to 11:45       Unconventional drilling, completions and production enhancement using tracers, Patrick Hays and Mariano Guerrico, Tracerco 

11:45 to 12:30       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.

12:30 to 12:45       Discussion

12:45 to 1:00         Break

Day 2 – 1:00 to 5:00         

1:00 to 1:40             Use of Single Well Tracer Evaluations, Charlie Carlilse, CEO and President, Chemical Tracers Inc. 

1:40 to 2:20             Use of Tracers to Measure the Surfactant Huff and Puff Performance in Unconventional Wells, Mariano Guerrico, Claudio Ramos, Tracerco 

2:20 to 3:20             Microbial assisted waterflooding (MAW)- past, present, and the future, Phillip Launt, RAM Biochemicals, Inc. 

3:20 to 4:00             TBA

4:00 to 4:40             TBA