IEA Collaborative Project on EOR: 25th Annual Workshop and Symposium, September 2004, Stavanger, Norway
The 25th Annual Workshop and Symposium of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Collaborative Project on EOR took place during September 2004. It was hosted by Norway, and organised by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The venue was the Sola Strand Hotel that is located by the splendid beaches of Sola just outside Stavanger. Tissa Jayasekera who attended with the UK delegation presents a brief overview.
Delegates
Around 70 delegates spent three days discussing the latest developments in EOR in the respective member countries and countries that were present as "observers". Tissa Jayasekera, Professor Dabir Tehrani and Professor Martin Blunt represented the UK.
Delegates to the 25th Annual Workshop and Symposium of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Collaborative Project on EOR
Programme
To view the full programme - click here.
The first two days were assigned to the workshop, at which papers were presented in the following task areas:
- Studies of Fluids and Interfaces in Porous Media
- Fundamental Research on Surfactants and Polymer
- Development of Gas Flooding Techniques
- Thermal recovery
- Dynamic Reservoir Characterisation
- Emerging Technologies
This workshop was dedicated to the memory of the late Bill Brigham who passed away earlier this year. Bill has graced this event, as a member of the USA delegation, for very many years. He shall be greatly missed, as the contribution he has made over the years has been immense, through his presentations, as well as the lively discussions he initiated in the most affable way.
The third day was assigned to the Symposium. The topic this year was "Enhanced Recovery from Chalk or Carbonate Reservoirs". There was good industry participation here with lots of interesting papers.
The keynote address at the Symposium was given by Rolf Wiborg, Principal Engineer at Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. It was Rolf's view that the operating companies should keep the oil price in the range $20-30 per barrel when running project economics. He felt that there will be pressure from middle eastern producers to keep the price below $35/bbl to stifle competition from alternate technologies such as Syncrude, cleaner coal etc.
Rolf Wiborg, Principal Engineer at Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Directorate Giving His Keynote Address at the Symposium
The UK contributed papers to the workshop are clickable below:
- Danesh, D.H. Tehrani, G.D. Henderson, M. Jamiolahmady, R. Ataei and G. Carvajal: Gas condensate recovery studies: Flow in perforated zone fractures
- M. Blunt, G. Di Donato and Z. Tavassoli: Analysis of physical mechanisms for oil recovery in fractured reservoirs: from the core to the field
- J. Masters, T. Fishlock, J. Makin and T. Jayasekera: Persistence of temperature effects from sea water injection
- D. H. Tehrani, A. Danesh, M. Sohrabi and G. Henderson: Improved oil recovery by water alternating gas injection (WAG) and simultaneous injection of water and gas (SWAG)
For papers contributed by other countries the respective country delegates may be contacted see http://www.iea.org/eor/exe.htm.
UK Delegates Making Their Presentations: Tissa Jayasekera (left) and Prof. Dabir Tehrani
The member countries are Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Japan, Norway, Russia, UK, USA and Venezuela. The "observer" countries were Croatia, Hungary and Mexico.
Social Events
Sunday 5 September - at the welcoming reception and dinner, there was a talk by Mr. Farouk Al-Kasim of Petroteam a.s. on "Petroleum Resource Management - Highlights of the Norwegian Approach"
Monday 6 September - there was an evening song and piano concert at the Sola Ruin Church.
Tuesday 7 September - a Gala dinner was held at Rosenkildehuset, in downtown Stavanger.
Thursday 9 September - there was a guided tour of the Stavanger Oil Museum.
Anna Inger Eide, NPD, Chairman of IEA Collaborative Project (right) and Komei Okatsu, JNOC, Vice-Chairman (centre) at the Gala Dinner