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Call for Papers

~~~CALL FOR PAPERS~~~
Paper Proposal Submission Deadline
~~~26 September 2011~~~

Dear Colleagues,

The Eighteenth SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium will be held 14-18 April 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The meeting theme is Issues and Options in an Uncertain World. Technical topics considered for the meeting are on the back of this card. Please consider submitting original and previously unreported results in these or related areas, for consideration by the Technical Program Committee. We encourage papers on fundamental technical advances as well as cases studies of field applications that provide new insights to improved oil recovery.

Paper proposals will be accepted online at http://manuscripts.spe.org/ppms through September 26, 2011.

Sincerely,

Lanny G. Schoeling
Technical Program Committee Chairman, IOR 2012
Kinder Morgan CO2

Suggested Topics: 

 

Miscible and Immiscible Gas Flooding

• CO2
• Enriched Gas
• Air, Nitrogen, and Flue Gas

Chemical Flooding

• Polymer
• Surfactant/Polymer
• Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer

Water and Gas Conformance Control

• Diagnostic and Evaluation Methods
• Mechanical Control Systems
• Chemical Control Systems (Polymers, PPG, RPMs, Foams, etc.)
• Cement Control Systems
• Combination Systems

Viscous (Heavy) Oil Recovery

• Thermal Methods
• Non-thermal Methods

Reservoir Characterization

• Simulation
• Wettability Alteration/Relative Permeability/Capillary Pressure
 Pore Scale Modeling of IOR/EOR Processes
• Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

  

 

Reservoir Management

• Real Time Surveillance
• Targeting Bypassed Oil
• Lateral, Multilateral, Infill Drilling
• Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells
• Smart Wells and Other
• Emerging Mechanical Technologies

Carbon Capture, Sequestration and IOR/EOR

 

Novel EOR Technologies

• Low Salinity, Microbial, Seismic Stimulation, Nanoparticles, etc.

Combined Technologies

 

IOR/EOR Case Studies – Applied EOR

 

Unconventional Oil – (e.g., Bakken or Eagle Ford, any Unconventional Oil fields)

 

Unconventional Oil Case Studies