Events

Speaker
Hossein Kazemi, Professor, Colorado School of Mines

Presentation
EOR in Zero Emissions and Energy Transition Environments

Abstract
This presentation is about enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for increasing oil recovery from unconventional and conventional reservoirs in the zero emissions and energy transition environments. Specifically, the presentation focuses on how CO2 has been successfully used for EOR-and-storage in conventional reservoirs and how low-concentration aqueous surfactants and mutual solvents can be used to enhance oil recovery from unconventional reservoirs without adding new wells or additional infrastructure. The supporting theory for these processes will be demonstrated by simple but convincing equations.

Bio
Hossein Kazemi is Chesebro’ Distinguished Chair professor in Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. He received a BS and PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; and an EOR Pioneer Award recipient. He has published numerous technical papers, authored several book chapters, and is a coauthor of the book Pore Scale Phenomena. In addition to his academic tenure at CSM, he has worked in the petroleum industry for thirty-seven years in various capacities — notably as scientist, reservoir management manager, production research director, and executive technical fellow at Marathon Oil Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado.

Location
CPE 2.204

Questions?
Rowan Halliday

About the Seminar
The Hildebrand Department’s Claude R. Hocott Lectureship in Petroleum Engineering is a weekly seminar series for current graduate students that features expert speakers on cutting-edge energy and subsurface engineering topics. For more information, contact Associate Professor Nicolas Espinoza.