Joining forces torecovermore

- formingatruebasefortheIORcompetenceinNorway

byMereteV.Madland

Joining Forcesseminarat NPDinStavanger2nd&3rd February2016

TheNationalIORCentreof Norway

2013-2015:Building atrueIORresearchteam(3research partners,12user partnersandseveral national -andinternational collaborators)

Thenational andinternational collaborators actively involved inthe IORCentre`s R&Dactivities• UiB, UiO,NTNU

• TUDelft,DTU,Cornell University• TNO,GEO,Geus• TheInstitute forStudyoftheEarth’s Interior (ISEI),OkayamaUniversity,Misasa,Japan;aCenterof

Excellence forthe21stCentury (oneofthe mostprestigious laboratories ingeosciences,cosmosciencesandmicro-/nano technology inthe world)

• University of Aberdeen– Professor AlexKemp.Economic analysesof IOR-projects

• SandiaNational laboratories, Albuquerque, NewMexico– Three-dimensional imagingandpore-scalemodelling ofcarbonate rocks(formertitle:FIB-SEM

imagingofchalk)– Contact: Dr.Hongkyu Yoon

• CoE InstituteofScienceandTechnologyinLuxembourg (materialsciences)• CoE Helmholtz InstituteFreibergforResource TechnologyatDresden withtheTUBergakademie

Freiberg(economic geologyandmaterial sciences)– Dr.Bernhard Schultze/Dr.JensGutzmer

• École Polytechnique Univerisité Paris-Sarclay (Physics)• UniversityofMünster Germany(Mineralogy)

– Dr.Cristian Vollmer• UniversityofEdinburgh• UniversityofHouston(Geology)• Universitá BicoccaMilano(Geology)• NCAR

– Dr.Dorit Hammerling/Dr.RamNair• Université deLyon

– Professor OlivierTillement

Prof. LawrenceM.Cathles III, CU

PhDstudentMario Silva&Postdoc.ThomasBrichart

Prof. Johan Sjøblom,Ugelstadlab/NTNU

Prof./Prof.II IdaLykkeFabricius ,DTU/UiS Prof.DagK.Dysthe,UiO

Prof. Arne Graue,UiB

Postdoc.Bergit Brattekås,UiS/UiB

Dr.Olwijn LeeuwenburghTNO

MSc NinaEgeland,ResearchAssistent, UiS

Prof.Eizo Nakamura, ISEI, Misasa, JapanInstitutefortheStudyoftheEarth`sInterior

Ass.Prof.Martin Fernø,UiB

CURRENT R&DACTIVITIES

Coccolith

Opal-CT

Grain

Pore space

Coccolith

Coccolith

Opal-CT

Grain

Pore space

Coccolith

MobileandimmobileoilandEORmethodsTheme1:TasksandTaskLeaders

CORESCALEMEASUREMENTS

&IMAGING

SUBMICRON&PORESCALE

INVESTIGATIONS

CORESCALESIMULATIONS

INTERPRETATION&EORFLUIDSOPTIMIZATION

UPSCALING&SECTORSCALEOPTIMIZATION

Task1

Task2&Task3

Task1

Task4

Task4

UdoZimmermannProfessorUiSudo.zimmermann@uis.no

Espen JettestuenSeniorScientistIRISeje@iris.no

AkselHiorthProfessor/ChiefScientistUiS/IRISAksel.hiorth@uis.no/ah@iris.no

ArneStavlandChiefScientistIRISas@iris.no

Combinemultiphasemodelswithchemistry- interpret&upscalelabexperiments

Geochemistry

Polymer,Silicate

Surfactant

MEOR

Tracers,Nanoparticlesand

…?

IORCoreSim(DOUCS)

Porescale(LB&DPD) IORSim

Geo-chemistry

Polymer,silicate

MEORSurfactant ?

ECLIPSE,OPM,….

+

Theme 1– current projects

PhD&PostDocsprojects leftoutin thediagram

Reservoircharacterization toimprovevolumetricsweep

Theme 2:TasksandTaskLeaders

TRACERTHECNOLOGY&

TRACERDEVELOPMENT

TorBjørnstadChiefScientist/ProfessorEmeritusIFE/UoOtor.bjornstad@ife.no

DEVELOPMENT&IMPROVEDMETHOLOGY

FORFULLFIELDRESERVOIRSIMULATION

TOOLS

FIELDSCALEEVALUATION&

HISTORYMATCHING&OPTIMIZATION

SveinSkjævelandProfessorEmeritusUoSsvein.m.skjeveland@uis.no

RobertKöfkornSeniorResearcherIRISRobert.Kloefkorn@iris.no

GeirNævdalChiefScientistIRISGeir.Naevdal@iris.no

IMPROVEVOLUMETRIC

SWEEP

Task5

Task6

Task7

Improving the volumetric sweep• IFEstracerlaboartories:

– Newtracerswith differentcharacteristics are developed todetermine Sor andtoinvestigatewhere inthe reservoir the remaining oil rescources are

• Reservoir simulation tools:– NewdevelopmentswithregardstoIORprocesses intheopensourcefullfield simulator,

OpenPorousMedia (OPM).OPMgivestheacademicfreedomandalsosuitstheeducationaljoboftheIORcentre,asallcodeisfreeandavailableforall

– Currentfocusincludes basicinvestigationsonmodelformulations formultiphaseflowinfracturedporousmedia,andmodelling ofnearwellflowscenarios, interactionwiththechemicalsimulatorIORSim,compositional modelling andhigherordernumericalmethods

• FieldscaleevaluationandHistorymatching:– Goodreservoirmodels arenecessarytopredictthefutureandmakethecorrectdecisions.

Ensemble basedmethodology isusedbothinhistorymatchingandoptimization.Essentialintheresearchistoinclude alltypesofdatainthehistorymatchingandtousesimulation toolsthatcansimulatethesedata

Theme 2– current projects

OURSTRENGTHS ANDHOWWEDISTINGUISH OURSELVES FROMOTHERS

Joiningforces– twoexamplesTheIORSim (NIORCincl.Schlumberger) TheYardtest(NIORCincl.Halliburton,

andSNF,SAR,andMatek-Samson)• Quantifyingthedegradationofpolymerwhen

passingdifferentchokes– Twopolymers,atthreeconcentrations,

arebeingpumpedthroughvalves

• Asimulatorforpredictingtheeffectofrockfluidinteractionsonoilrecoverybasedonindustrystandardreservoirmodels– Upscalefromcorescale– PredicttheperformanceofIOR

chemicalsonfieldscale– EffectofcombiningseveralEOR

methods

IORChemicals

Dissemination

Dissemination NIORC2014-2015Resultatindikatorer

Resultater 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Akkumulert hittil

Allmennrettede formidlingstiltak

Oppslag i massemedia (aviser, radio, TV mm)

134 7 141

Populærvitenskapelige publikasjoner (artikler/bøker, debattbøker/-artikler, høringer, utstillinger, skjønnlitteratur etc.)

0 14 14

Brukerrettede formidlingstiltak

Rapporter, notat, artikler, foredrag på møte/konferanser retta mot målgruppene i prosjektet.

93 101 194

Vitenskapelige utgivelser

Publisert artikkel i antologi

0 0

Publisert artikkel i periodika og serier

0 37 37

Publiserte monografier

0 1 1

9. Alleresultatdatasomerframkommetiprosjektetskalrapporteres.Errapportering Jaforetatt?

Planning- which R&Dactivities?• Internal project announcements• Regularworkshops,seminarsmeetings w/the research andindustry partners• TheTechnicalCommittee(TC)(4-5meetings peryear):

– TheadvisorybodytotheBoard,consistingofrepresentativesfromeachofthe12userpartners

• TheBoard(4-5meetings peryear):– Monitorstheimplementationoftheprojectsandapproveannualworkplansand

budgets– Ensuresthattheactivitiesdescribedintheprojectdescription,financingplanand

annualworkplansarecompletedwithinadefinedtimeframe,andthisincludesin-kindcontributionsfromthetwoservicecompaniesdeliveredasspecified

– Consistsofonerepresentativefromeachresearchpartner;UiS,IRIS,IFE,andarepresentativefromfiveoftheuserpartners(industry);toensureindustryrelevanceandengagement

– RCN,NorwegianPetroleumDirectorateandPetoro haveobserverstatus

PLANSFORFUTURE R&DPROJECTS

Theroadmap

Theroadmap

IORWorkshop25thApril2016Allpartners,nationalandinternationalcollaboratorsandanyother interestedpartiesareinvitedtoaninternalworkshop todiscusscurrentissuesregardingIOR/EORresearch

• Theme:«Howcan researchcontribute topilots?»– Experimentsandmodeling

• Chair:KåreVagle(CoP)

• Program– Introduction– Presentationof plansfortwo integratedprojects

Annual IORconferences- attracting new national andinternational collaborators

• Welcome toIORNORWAY2016 http://www.uis.no/research-and-phd-studies/research-centres/the-

national-ior-centre-of-norway/ior-norway-2016/

• April26-272016• Formoreinformation:

uis.no/ior

IORNORWAY2016NIORCincollaboration w/NFiP (PetroleumResearchSchoolofNorway)

Speaker: Karl Eirik Schøtt-Pedersen

CEO of Norsk olje og gass, Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen will present the topic —Making the impossible, possible. What‘s needed to take oil recovery on the NCS to the next level?“

WilliamFrankChris tensen,Climate,Industry andTechnologyDepartement –theNorwegianMinis tryfor Petroleum andEnergy

Prof. Margot Gerritsen,Department ofEnergyResources Engineering,Stanford

Prof. Arne Graue,Phys ics attheDepartment ofPhys ics andTechnology,Univers ityofBergen