Universities
Universities are at the core of the training of next generations of engineers and specific R&D. With Joint Industrial Projects, they help bring together the main stakeholders interested in solving specific challenges to deploy cEOR faster.
North America
University of Texas at Austin
JIP / R&D goal: To conduct research to improve displacement efficiency, sweep efficiency, and scale-up by cost effective chemical enhanced oil recovery processes.
The Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Research Project includes experimental and modeling research on all chemical EOR methods including polymer flooding, surfactant flooding, alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding, low tension gas flooding, wettability alteration, mobility control using foam, low salinity water flooding, shale stimulation and hybrid chemical-thermal methods by a team (of more than 30) faculty members, senior research scientists, research associates, post docs, graduate students and undergraduate students. Major advances in chemical EOR have greatly extended the range of reservoir conditions and types, reduced the cost of recovering the oil and increased the process robustness. Entirely new classes of superior surfactants have been developed as part of this research project and are now being deployed in numerous field projects. New capabilities have been added to the UTCHEM simulator and engineers worldwide are using UTCHEM to simulate and optimize field-scale chemical floods.
InnoTech Alberta
InnoTech Alberta
InnoTech Alberta partners with industry, innovators and the public sector. Together with our world-class researchers, leading-edge facilities, and strategic investments, we pave the path of innovation that will feed, grow, fuel, and build Alberta’s economy.
Polymer Flooding Heavy Oil Joint Industry Program
The business purpose of this JIP is to develop enhanced waterflooding processes for heavy oil reservoirs up to 20,000cP.
Member Benefits of this JIP
- Excellent leverage for research and development investment
- Direct involvement in setting up research priorities and providing R & D directions
- Access to innovative research results for guiding potential field practice
- Provides an opportunity to network and learn from the experience of other members
The Focus of the JIP
- Mobility Control
- Polymer injection Strategy through 8m-long slim-tube
- Injectivity issues and remediation
- Factors influencing polymer injectivity and corresponding remediation
- Improve the separation efficiency of field produced fluids containing polymers
- Post-polymer flood treatment
- Blocking and diverting
- Features diagnosis and corresponding conformance treatment
Saskatchewan Research Council
SRC is a market-driven company, selling services in Saskatchewan and around the world. Our unique offering of services expands based on the needs of our clients and industry.
Drawing upon the expertise of our research and technology teams in key strategic sectors, we provide our clients with Smart Science Solutions™, while developing and creating new concepts and processes.
SRC’s Business Development, Purchasing and Intellectual Property professionals will help guide you in making the best decisions for you and your company.
CHEMICAL EOR EVALUATION
Not all oil fields are chemical EOR candidates and not all chemical EOR processes can be used for all reservoirs. SRC provides initial screening and feasibility studies to determine if chemical flooding techniques are suitable for your reservoir and if so, which techniques are appropriate:
- Fluid-fluid Analysis
- Coreflood displacements
- Numerical simulation
Europe
Heriot-Watt University
Institute for GeoEnergy Engineering – United Kingdom
We are a leading centre of excellence in geoenergy engineering and applied geoscience, recognised for the quality of our teaching, training, and research.
Our activities build on our proud heritage of integrating geoscience and engineering to understand the subsurface for the benefit of the energy industry. We pioneer world-class research and training cross a broad range subsurface energy challenges, encompassing oil and gas, carbon capture and storage, geothermal energy, and renewable energy storage to deliver innovation for the low-carbon transition, sustainable energy, and responsible resource management.
We offer a range of postgraduate opportunities, all uniquely tailored to the wider energy industry, in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment which provides a stimulating place for learning and research.
University of Bergen
University of Bergen – Norway
Our vision is to conduct chemical research at an international acknowledged level within selected research topics, and to be an attractive place of study providing modern research-based teaching. Furthermore, the department will engage in services that benefit our regional and national communities.
The plan for the next five years combines continuity and change. It reinforces and extends our commitment to international standards of research focusing on three areas:
- nanoscience
- molecular bioscience
- petroleum, natural gas and biofuels
The staff counts twelve full professors, three adjunct professors, and seven associate professors. During recent years there has been a gradual reduction in permanent staff, from 25 in 2000 to 19 in 2010. In 2011, however, one full professor and one associate professor was appointed to the department. Furthermore, the department has 13 technicians and five
administrative staff members, and currently also eight postdoctoral fellows and researchers, 35 PhD-students, and 40 master-students. Department of Chemistry collaborates closely with Centre of Pharmacy. Similarly, staff members are involved in the Centre of Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), a cross-disciplinary centre of excellence at University of
Bergen.
Clausthal University
Clausthal University – Germany
Our institute is represented by three departments – Reservoir Engineering, Drilling and Production and Petroleum Production Systems. These are covering almost total amount of the education for the Bachelor and Master course Petroleum Engineering. Together with the oil and gas industry in Germany the institute is involved in essential projects of these areas of Research
