Joining forces to recover more

- forming a true base for the IOR competence in Norway

by Merete V. Madland

Norsk olje&gass – Dialogmøte i Kiellandssalen, Atlantic Hotel, Stavanger, 6. april 2016

Stavanger er stedet!

6. april 2016

Contribute to improve oil recovery on the Norwegian

Continental Shelf• Research and development for field

implementation• Environmentally friendly technologies

` Consortium` 3 research partners UiS-IRIS and IFE` 12 user partners

` Host institution - UiS` Centre lifetime` 5+3 years (2013-2021)` In 2015: 58 MNOK

` 16 PhD students` 8 Post docs` 40 projects` More than 150 researchers involved

The National IOR Centre of Norway

Centre Director Prof. M.V. Madland and Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien at IOR NORWAY 2015

Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien officially declared theCentre for opened 26 March 2014

The Partners

The national and international collaborators actively involved in the IOR Centre`s R&D activities• UiB, UiO, NTNU

• TU Delft, DTU, Cornell University• TNO, GEO, Geus• The Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior (ISEI), Okayama University, Misasa, Japan; a Center of

Excellence for the 21st Century (one of the most prestigious laboratories in geosciences,cosmosciencesand micro-/nano technology in the world)

• University of Aberdeen – Professor Alex Kemp. Economic analyses of IOR-projects

• Sandia National laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico– Three-dimensional imaging and pore-scale modelling of carbonate rocks (former title: FIB-SEM

imaging of chalk) – Contact: Dr. Hongkyu Yoon

• CoE Institute of Science and Technology in Luxembourg (material sciences)• CoE Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology at Dresden with the TU Bergakademie

Freiberg (economic geology and material sciences)– Dr. Bernhard Schultze/Dr. Jens Gutzmer

• École Polytechnique Univerisité Paris-Sarclay (Physics)• University of Münster Germany (Mineralogy)

– Dr. Cristian Vollmer• University of Edinburgh• University of Houston (Geology)• Universitá Bicocca Milano (Geology)• NCAR

– Dr.Dorit Hammerling/ Dr. Ram Nair• Université de Lyon

– Professor Olivier Tillement

Prof. Lawrence M. Cathles III, CU

PhD student Mario Silva & Postdoc. Thomas Brichart

Prof. Johan Sjøblom,Ugelstadlab/NTNU

Prof./Prof.II Ida Lykke Fabricius, DTU/UiS Prof. Dag K. Dysthe, UiO

Prof. Arne Graue, UiB

Post doc. Bergit Brattekås, UiS/UiB

Dr. Olwijn LeeuwenburghTNO

MSc Nina Egeland, Research Assistent, UiS

Prof. Eizo Nakamura, ISEI, Misasa, JapanInstitute for the Study of the Earth`s Interior

Ass. Prof. Martin Fernø, UiB

2013-2015: Building a true IOR researchteam (3 research partners, 12 user partners and several national -and international collaborators)

CURRENT R&D ACTIVITIES

Mobile and immobile oil and EOR methods

Theme 1: Tasks and Task Leaders

CORE SCALEMEASUREMENTS

& IMAGING

SUB MICRON & PORE SCALE

INVESTIGATIONS

CORE SCALESIMULATIONS

INTERPRETATION & EOR FLUIDS OPTIMIZATION

UPSCALING &SECTOR SCALEOPTIMIZATION

Task1

Task2 & Task3

Task1

Task4

Task4

Udo ZimmermannProfessor UiS

udo.zimmermann@uis.no

Espen JettestuenSenior Scientist IRIS

eje@iris.no

Aksel HiorthProfessor/Chief Scientist

UiS/IRIS

Aksel.hiorth@uis.no/ah@iris.no

Arne StavlandChief Scientist IRIS

as@iris.no

Reservoir characterization to improve volumetric sweep

Theme 2: Tasks and Task Leaders

TRACER THECNOLOGY &

TRACER DEVELOPMENT

Tor BjørnstadChief Scientist/Professor Emeritus

IFE/UiO

tor.bjornstad@ife.no

DEVELOPMENT & IMPROVED METHOLOGY

FOR FULL FIELD RESERVOIR SIMULATION

TOOLS

FIELD SCALE EVALUATION &

HISTORY MATCHING & OPTIMIZATION

Svein SkjævelandProfessor Emeritus

UiS

svein.m.skjeveland@uis.no

Robert KöfkornSenior Researcher

IRIS

Robert.Kloefkorn@iris.no

Geir NævdalChief Scientist

IRIS

Geir.Naevdal@iris.no

IMPROVE VOLUMETRIC

SWEEP

Task5

Task6

Task7

Combine multiphase models with chemistry - interpret & upscale lab experiments

Geochemistry

Polymer, Silicate

Surfactant

MEOR

Tracers, Nanoparticles and

…?

IORCoreSim(DOUCS)

Pore scale(LB & DPD) IORSim

Geo-chemistry

Polymer, silicate

MEORSurfactant ?

ECLIPSE, OPM, ….

+

Our models are history matched to lab data and further refined by textural investigations, pore scale and molecular simulations. These models are included into IORSim, which is an addon tool to eclipse. This allows us to combine the best of two worlds; using the latest models developed based on lab data in industry standard history-matched reservoir models.

Highlights 2015• 13 PhDs were recruited the last year and the total number of PhDs and Post docs are now 16 and 8,

respectively.

• The large-scale polymer degradation test led by Halliburton and the development of our simulation tool, IORSim, in which Schlumberger supports in getting to communicate efficiently with the commercial reservoir simulator Eclipse.

• The release of relevant and specific field data which helps calibrating our models.

• Development of an open source reservoir simulator (OPM), which allows for easy collaboration between research institutes and industry partners, has resulted in three software releases. Moreover also a spin-off project with the industry has been granted and will strengthen the OPM development even further.

• At IFE development of new more environmentally friendly tracers, which can be detected at very low concentrations, are progressing.

• Developing and testing of methodologies for including the information from 4D seismic data in history matching using ensemble based methods. This approach shows to be promising on synthetic cases and we are working to bring the methodology further to be applicable on real field cases.

OUR STRENGTHS AND HOW WEDISTINGUISH OURSELVES FROM OTHERS

Planning- which R&D activities?• Internal project announcements• Regular workshops, seminars meetings w/ the research and industry partners • The Technical Committee (TC) (4-5 meetings per year):

– The advisory body to the Board, consisting of representatives from each of the 12 user partners

• The Board (4-5 meetings per year):– Monitors the implementation of the projects and approve annual work plans and

budgets– Ensures that the activities described in the project description, financing plan and

annual work plans are completed within a defined timeframe, and this includes in-kind contributions from the two service companies delivered as specified

– Consists of one representative from each research partner; UiS, IRIS, IFE, and a representative from five of the user partners (industry); to ensure industry relevance and engagement

– RCN, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and Petoro have observer status

Joining forces…The IORSim (NIORC incl. Schlumberger)

The Yard test (NIORC incl. Halliburton, and SNF, SAR, and Matek-Samson)

• Quantifying the degradation of polymer when passing different chokes

– Two polymers, at three concentrations, are being pumped through valves

• A simulator for predicting the effect of rock fluid interactions on oil recovery based on industry standard reservoir models

– Upscale from core scale – Predict the performance of IOR

chemicals on field scale – Effect of combining several EOR

methods

IOR Chemicals

Dissemination

PLANS FOR FUTURE R&D PROJECTS

Focusing the R&D even more- an internal strategy w/ the industry and The Centre researchers

• Field or pilot tests have been rare due to uncertainty of the potential for IOR We are aiming for two pilot cases:– Polymer injection in sandstone reservoirs– Smart water injection in carbonates

• Working closely w/ companies trying to identify specific wells where pilots might be possible

• Continue the dialogue and collaboartion w/ industry partners on field data

• General and field independent research tasks– identifying IOR-mechanisms related to Smart Water– developing better models for understanding the underlying parameters

controlling shear degradation of synthetic polymers

A common effort: The roadmap

• The contribution from the oil and service companies areextremely valuable

• The research needs to be applicable in order to reach ouroverall aim

• Improved knowledge, technologies, methodologies (IORSim, new tracers..) to be used in decision-making regarding production strategy and investments; especially evaluating potential for EOR pilots

• Cost efficient and practical solutions must be favored

IOR Workshop 25th April 2016All partners, national and international collaborators and any other interested parties are invited to an internal workshop to discuss current issues regarding IOR/EOR research

• Theme: «How can researchcontribute to pilots?»

– Experiments and modeling

• Chair: Kåre Vagle (CoP)

• Program– Introduction– Presentation of plans for two integrated projects

Chair: Kåre Vagle, ConocoPhillips

09:00 Registration09:30 Welcome09:40 “EOR/IOR Research Integration from University to Industry for Offshore

Newfoundland” by Lesley James, Memorial University of Newfoundland10:00 "Nanofluids for EOR: Physicochemical mechanisms" by Jan Otto Fossum, NTNU 10:20 Speaker 3: To be announced11:40 "Experimental Investigation of IOR/EOR Displacement Mechanisms Using a Pore-

to-Core Upscaling Approach" by Martin Fernø, UiB

12:00 LUNCH

The Ekofisk field13:00 "Ekofisk – Lab to Field" by Robert Moe, ConocoPhillips13:30 "Estimation of reservoir parameter changes using 4D seismic data of Ekofisk

Field" by Tuhin Bhakta, IRIS14:00 “Ekofisk IOR integration project” by Jarle Haukås, Schlumberger14:30 "IORSim – an add on tool to Eclipse for IOR simulations"

“The two way coupling between IORSim and Eclipse” by Jan Sagen, IFE 15:00 Coffee break

The Snorre field15:30 “ Modeling of the Snorre deep-divergence pilot« by Øivind Fevang and Vegard Røine Stenerud, Statoil16:00 "In-depth water diversion - upscaling from lab to field" by Arne Stavland, IRIS16:30 “Explaining and modelling the rheology of polymer fluids with the kinetic theory”

by Dmitry Shogin, Postdoc, UiS17:00 Summing up

IOR NORWAY 2016 NIORC in collaboration w/ NFiP (Petroleum Research School of Norway)

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?”

William Frank Christensen,Climate, Industry and Technology Departement –the Norwegian Ministry for Petroleum and Energy

Prof. Margot Gerritsen,Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford

Prof. Arne Graue, Physics at the Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen

Annual IOR conferences- attracting new national and international collaborators

• Welcome to IOR NORWAY 2016 http://www.uis.no/research-and-phd-studies/research-centres/the-

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

• April 26-27 2016• For more information:

uis.no/ior

The world needs energy, and more than 50% of the petroleum resources are left in the ground on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. We have a responsibility to improve the recovery, whilst reducing costs and mitigating environmental impact. To achieve this goal, it is important that all stake holders work together.