Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery

Dr. Bin Yuan is currently post-doctoral fellow at University of Calgary, and senior reservoir advisor for Coven Energy, providing oil/gas production technology and consulting services with research interests in formation damage characterization and mitigation coupled with IOR processes, improved characterization and simulation toolbox for hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery in unconventional oil and gas, and applied nanotechnologies in petroleum engineering. He previously worked on reservoir engineering related researches at GE Oil and Gas Technology Center. Dr. Yuan earned B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in petroleum engineering from China University of Petroleum, and a PhD from the University of Oklahoma. David A. Wood has more than forty years of international gas, oil, and broader energy experience since gaining his Ph.D. in geosciences from Imperial College London in the 1970s. His expertise covers multiple fields including subsurface geoscience and engineering relating to oil and gas exploration and production, energy supply chain technologies, and efficiencies. For the past two decades, David has worked as an independent international consultant, researcher, training provider, and expert witness. He has published an extensive body of work on geoscience, engineering, energy, and machine learning topics. He currently consults and conducts research on a variety of technical and commercial aspects of energy and environmental issues through his consultancy, DWA Energy Limited. He has extensive editorial experience as a founding editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering in 2008/9 then serving as Editor-in-Chief from 2013 to 2016. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Geo-Energy Research.

• 1. Overview of Formation Damage during Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery2. Low-Salinity Water Flooding: from Novel to Mature Technology3. Formation Damage by Fines Migration: Mathematical and Laboratory Modelling, Field Cases4. Using Nanofluids to Control Fines Migration in Porous Systems5. Formation Damage by Inorganic Deposition6. Formation Damage by Organic Deposition7. Formation Damage during Chemical Flooding8. Formation Damage Problems associated with CO2 Flooding9. Formation Damage by Thermal Methods Applied to Heavy Oil Reservoirs10. Formation Damage Issues in Unconventional Reservoirs11. Formation Damage Problems in Offshore and Deepwater Reservoirs12. Formation Damage Challenges in Geothermal Reservoirs13. Formation Damage in Coalbed Methane Recovery14. Special Focus on Produced Water in Oil and Gas Fields: Origin, Management and Re-Injection Practice15. Integrated Risks Assessment and Management of IOR/EOR projects: A Formation Damage View