2012 Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Nanotechnology for Upstream Petroleum Industry

Chair

Leandro Balzano, Shell (SIEP)

Co-Chair

Quoc P. Nguyen, The University of Texas at Austin

Presentations

08:00 AM

(57a) Interfacially-Active Nanohybrids for Improved Oil Recovery
Jeffrey Harwell, Santiago Drexler, Jimmy A. Faria, M. Pilar Ruiz, J. Baez, Bor-Jier Shiau, Daniel E. Resasco

08:30 AM

(57b) Effect of Nanoparticle As Interfacial Modifiers in EP Operations
Ramanan Krishnamoorti

09:00 AM

(57c) Rock-Based Micromodel and CFD Studies of Nanomaterial Transport for Reservoir Applications
Saade Bou-Mikael, Daniel S. Park, Dimitris Nikitopoulos, Clinton S. Willson, Karsten E Thompson

10:00 AM

(57d) Stability of Nanoparticles At Reservoir Conditions and Applications for Conformance Control
Quoc P. Nguyen

10:30 AM

(57e) New Nano-Particle Based Drilling Fluids
James Friedheim, Chung-min Jang, Mukul M. Sharma, Martin Chenevert

11:00 AM

(57f) Designing Brine-Stable, Transportable Nanoparticles for Downhole Sensing
Michael Wong, James M. Tour, Mason B. Tomson