IOR2018 NEWSVolume 7, Number 2, 2017

April 14-18, 2018, Tulsa, Oklahoma

IOR 2018 PIOneeRs COmPRIse LaRgest gROuP Of HOnORees sInCe awaRd’s InauguRaL YeaR 34 YeaRs agOIn this centennial year of the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Mid-Continent Section—sponsor of the biennial Improved Oil Recovery conference—the largest number of IOR Pioneers to be selected since the honor’s inaugural year will be celebrated at the 21st SPE IOR Conference next year.

Six candidates made the final cut to be named an IOR Pioneer and to be honored at the 21st SPE Improved Oil Recovery conference, scheduled for April 14–18, 2018, at the Cox Business Center in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The SPE IOR 2018 Pioneers are Anil K. Ambastha, Tor Austad, M.R. Fassihi, Gary Jerauld, Sunil Kokal, and Pat McGuire. In all, 17 distinguished nominees were on the “short” list for SPE IOR 2018, compared with 19 for SPE IOR 2016 and 11 for SPR 2014.

The biennial symposium is the world’s largest gathering of petroleum scientists and oil and gas industry professionals focused on advancing knowledge and technology to improve and enhance oil and gas recovery.

Pioneer Award significanceSince the IOR Pioneer awards first were given in 1984 with the inaugural slate of 10 honorees, the award has been conferred upon 82 individuals, including the current year’s slate. Most Pioneer groups have consisted of 5 (7 times) or 4 (6 times) cele-brants, although there were 2 periods in which 3 were honored and 1 period in which 2 were awarded the prestigious recogni-tion by their peers. Of the Pioneers elected comprising a group of 5 or more, all but 2 were recognized since 2000 (see table on following page).

These six IOR Pioneers will be feted at a special recognition luncheon on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at the Cox Business Center. Articles on each of the 2018 IOR Pioneers follow this one.

Noteworthy is the fact that some of the 2018 Pioneers have performed groundbreaking work outside the confines of the more narrowly defined area of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that historically has dominated the Pioneer awards. Advances in hori-zontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, included under the broader umbrella term of improved oil recovery (IOR), have revo-lutionized the oil and natural gas industry by rendering hitherto intractable “tight” resources recoverable at viable rates.

The 6 honorees will be recognized at IOR 2018 for their significant contributions to IOR and EOR, according to Dwight Dauben, chairman of the IOR 2018 Pioneer Awards committee. While the number of awardees typically ranges from three to five, the inclusion of 17 nominees apparently helped support a number of awards at the higher end of the range.

“All of the 17 candidates had excellent credentials and will once again be considered for 2020, if he or she did not receive the award this time,” Dauben said.

He noted that the award recognizes and expresses special appreciation to individuals who have pioneered and made signifi-cant advancement in the technology for improving oil recovery.

“The diversity of the Pioneer committee has allowed us to identify worthy candi-dates from around the world in a variety of disciplines, including both academic and industrial backgrounds. The 2018 award selections demonstrate this broad diversity of backgrounds and experiences.”

Dwight DaubenChairman, IOR 2018 Pioneer

CommitteeDauben

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“I think that improved oil recovery processes will continue to be important for the longer term. The selection of deserving candidates, along with the publicity that surrounds these awards, will help to put a focus on IOR and also encourage others in their involvement in the technology.”

The diversity of the Pioneer committee has allowed it to identify worthy candidates from around the world in a variety of dis-ciplines, including both academic and industrial backgrounds, Dauben noted: “The 2018 award selections demonstrate this broad diversity of backgrounds and experiences. My appreciation to the entire committee for all of the thoughtful consider-ations and hard work in getting together a great selection of recipients for the 2018 conference.”

34 YEARS OF IOR PIONEERS

Year IOR Pioneers1984 Francis R. Conley, Lloyd E. Elkins, Ted M. Geffen, L.M. Holm, Howard A. Koch, Jr., Fred H. Poettmann, R.

Vincent Smith, P.L. Terwilliger, L.W. Welch, Jr., Phillip D. White1986 Robert J. Blackwell, Ben H. Caudle, Lincoln F. Elkins, Claude R. Hocott, Michael Prats

1988 E.R. Brownscombe, Elmond L. Claridge, H. Robert Froning, R.L. Reed

1990 W. Barney Gogarty, John P. Heller, Joseph J. Taber

1992 Ted R. Blevins, R.C. Earlougher, Henry J. Ramey, Jr., Arlie M. Skov

1994 J.C. Melrose, Necmettin Mungan

1996 Robert S. Schechter, Lowell R. Smith, Ben Sloat, Fred I. Stalkup

1998 William E. Brigham, C. Robert Fast, George J. Hirasaki, Thomas K. Perkins

2000 Bob Barnett, Larry W. Lake, Richard Nelson, Burton B. Sandiford

2002 Howard Ferrell, S.M. Farouq Ali, W.C. Hardy, W.L. Martin, George L. Stegemeier

2004 Philip J. Closmann, Harry Surkalo, G. Paul Wilhite

2006 Jae H. Bae, Don W. Green, Hossein Kazemi, Franklin M. Orr Jr., Gary Pope

2008 Dwight L. Dauben, Kishore Kumar Mohanty, Kenneth Sorbie, Randall Scott Seright, Michael R. Todd

2010 Wang Demin, Jeffrey A. Jones, Gordon Moore, David Zornes

2012 Chun Huh, Brij Maini, Malcolm Pitts, William Rossen

2014 Betty Felber, Sudarshan Mehta, Karl Miller, Ahmad Moradi, and Norman Morrow

2016 Richard Hutchins, Sada Joshi, Jenn-Tai Liang, Lanny Schoeling, Ali Yousef

2018 Anil K.Ambastha, Tor Austad, M.R. Fassihi, Gary Jerauld, Sunil Kokal, Pat McGuire

Award’s criteriaDauben, a Tulsa-based petroleum consultant and a 2002 IOR Pioneer honoree, described the basic criteria for being nominat-ed as an IOR Pioneer as early and long-term involvement in the development and/or application of IOR and EOR: “[The term] ‘IOR’ implies processes that improve oil recovery during the secondary and tertiary phases of recovery. It includes the classic…EOR processes that are designed to improve displacement or sweep. These EOR processes include the injection of chemicals, gas, polymers, or the generation of heat into the reservoir. IOR is a broader term that includes not only the classic EOR processes but also any process that results in the improvement of recovery beyond that achieved by standard methods. These include improved waterflooding techniques, use of horizontal wells to improve secondary recovery performance, pres-sure maintenance, gravity-assisted gas- or water-injection, water shut-off, cold production of heavy oil, and the in-situ upgrading of heavy oil. The drilling, logging, and completion of wells are excluded from consideration even though that can impact recovery.”

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Additionally, according to Dauben, nominees must be involved in and enjoy industry recognition for their involvement in one or more phases of IOR activity, including laboratory testing, software development or application, project design, field appli-cation, and monitoring of field performance. A prospective IOR Pioneer must also be a member of SPE during that IOR activity and generally have established 2 to 4 decades of their career to the development and application of leading-edge technology designed to increase recovery from older oil fields.

PIOneeR ambastHa Lauded fOR advanCes In PRessuRe tRansIent anaLYsIs, fIeLd desIgnsDr. Anil K. Ambastha, Team Leader, Gas EOR and Chemical EOR Simulation and Modeling, for Chevron Energy Technology Company, has been lauded by his peers for his pioneering work in pres-sure transient analysis as applied to thermal recov-ery as the main reason to elect him to SPE IOR Pioneer status.

The industry veteran of 29 years and counting has also designed large-scale IOR and EOR projects in Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Venezuela, and the US. And he has made signifi-cant contributions in fall-off testing of CO2 wells and cyclic steam injection.

In his nominating letter, 2002 Pioneer honoree S.M. Farouq Ali noted, “Dr. Ambastha did original work on pressure transient analysis applicable to thermal recovery projects to determine the frontal distance. The methods developed are also applicable to acidizing, waterflooding, and for determining the distance to discontinuities in areally and vertically compartmentalized and multi-layered reservoirs. Along similar lines, Dr. Ambastha also developed the theory for fall-off testing of wells and cyclic steam injection under parting pressures. In the area of numerical simulation, he made important contributions to in-situ combustion.”

Dr. Farouq Ali also cited these accomplishments, among many, warranting his endorsement of Dr. Ambastha:

• Designing a peripheral waterflood incorporating 10 years of drilling for the Wara reservoir in Kuwait.• Being the first to document the benefits of steamflooding vs. cyclic steaming under parting pressures in diatomite in

California’s Cymric heavy oil field.• Serving as Principal Editor for the two-volume Heavy Oil Recovery SPE reprint series No. 61 (first ever SPE reprint

series on a CD-ROM) published in 2008.• Authoring more than 70 papers, serving as Executive Editor of SPEREE Journal (2008–2011) and a Distinguished

Lecturer (2015–2016), and winning nine Outstanding Technical Editor awards.

Career pathDr. Ambastha has spent most of his career involved in reservoir simulation studies related to IOR—and the majority of that time with Chevron. He currently is responsible for overseeing his team’s work on analytical and reservoir simulation-based assessments for gas (CO2, N2, hydrocarbon gas, etc.) and chemical (polymer, surfactant, alkali-surfactant-polymer, etc.) EOR processes for all business units within the entire Chevron organization. Current projects are focused on fields in the US, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, and Venezuela.

Ambastha began his career in 1981 as assistant director focused on reservoir development planning with the Indian Oil & Natural Gas Commission’s Institute of Reservoir Studies. He later worked in consultancy or staff positions with Phillips Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville, Okla., and Shell Canada Ltd. in Calgary, Alta., involved in oil and gas reservoir engineering

“As a PhD student, I often referred to Dr. Ambastha's research and scholarly work. He has made significant contributions in pressure transient analysis, extended to compartmentalized and lay-ered reservoirs, and formations under a steam-flood. He has also developed methodologies for using simulation for reservoir performance improve-ment in a wide range of reservoirs around the world... He has also been a role model and mentor for several young professionals, such as myself.”

Jyotsna Sharma Reservoir Engineer

Chevron Energy Technology Co.Ambastha

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and simulation work. He also held professorships at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alta., where he taught courses in reservoir engineering and pressure transient analysis.

CredentialsDr. Ambastha has had many leadership and honorary roles with SPE over the years in addition to those previously mentioned. He has received the Distinguished Service, Lester C. Uren Technical Excellence, and Distinguished Member awards as well as first place for the Best Technical Paper Presenter, (SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference & Exhibition 2014).

He also was given the A Peer Apart award for reviewing 100 papers as a Technical Editor and has held various roles with the SPE Editorial Review Committee since 1992.

Ambastha has a BTech in petroleum engineering from the Indian School of Mines, where he was first in class for 5 years. He also has MS degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and in operations research from Stanford University and a PhD in petroleum engineering from Stanford.

PIOneeR austad Led gROundbReakIng ReseaRCH IntO wettabILItY, suRfaCtant fLOOdIngDr. Tor Austad has been a pioneer in more than one sense during his career in the oil and gas industry. In addition to his election to the hallowed ranks of the SPE IOR Pioneers, he was present at the creation of SPOR, Norway’s national pro-gram for IOR that the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate launched in 1985.

Austad is currently a professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Stavanger. Most of his work has involved the wettability properties of chalk, and his focus has shifted to research on water-based EOR for other carbonates, such as limestone and dolomite. He also is studying wettability in sandstone reser-voirs, notably regarding low salinity flooding.

Austad has been actively involved in the development of surfactant flooding since the 1980s—with some keystone papers on surfactant adsorption, stability, and surfactant-polymer interaction.

“Dr. Austad is considered to be the world’s expert on the development and application of surfactant imbibition processes into tight carbonate formations,” said Randy Seright, a 2008 IOR Pioneer. “He had the foresight to propose and research this pro-cess for application in the North Sea in the early 1990s. He is a true pioneer in the application of wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery—particularly in the development of the low-salinity and ‘smart water’ processes.”

In cooperation with many doctoral students, Austad has identified the special properties of seawater as an EOR and compac-tion fluid in chalk reservoirs with a high temperature. This has been critical in understanding how injection of seawater dis-places oil so efficiently on Norway’s supergiant Ekofisk oil field.

Career pathDr. Austad is a professor in reservoir chemistry at the University of Stavanger, and has consulted for a number of oil compa-nies and research organizations. He has been involved with petroleum education and research for more than 35 years, having mentored 15 PhD students.

His research efforts have centered on traditional physical chemistry/reaction kinetics, PVT properties of reservoir fluids, EOR surface chemistry, and water-based EOR by wettability alteration in carbonates and sandstones.

“Dr. Austad is considered to be the world’s expert on the development and application of surfactant imbibition pro-cesses into tight carbonate forma-tions.”

Randy Seright2008 IOR Pioneer

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He was a member and chairman of the Norwegian Research Council’s petroleum and chemistry groups during 1983-1989.

Austad also has been a key leader in Norway’s national EOR programs, SPOR (State R&D Program for Improved Oil Recovery Program & Reservoir Technology) (1986-1992) and RUTH (Reservoir Utilization through advanced Technological Help) (1992-96).

CredentialsDr. Austad has published more than 100 journal papers and has made a large number of presentations at international confer-ences. He has also consulted on IOR for the International Energy Agency, the OECD’s energy policy and statistics.

He was awarded the SPOR research prize and, together with the Corec research center at IRIS, won the NPD’s IOR prize in 2010. Austad also holds a patent for wettability changes in carbonates.

He holds MS and PhD degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Bergen.

PIOneeR fassIHI IntROduCed aIR InjeCtIOn fOR IOR teCHnOLOgY tO IndustRY, advanCed HIgH PRessuRe aIR InjeCtIOnDr. M.R. (Reza) Fassihi’s elevation to SPE IOR Pioneer sta-tus was based on his groundbreaking work in the area of air injection for IOR, according to the colleagues who nominated him for the honor.

Currently working as a Distinguished Advisor for BHP Billiton Petroleum in Houston since 2010, Fassihi provides assurance global subsurface projects and use of best practices in reservoir management for both conventional and uncon-ventional reservoirs. He has more than 30 years of experience in oil and gas R&D as well as field application of best prac-tices in reservoir management.

Fassihi’s core contributions to IOR have been in the area of air injection, whether for in situ combustion or for high-pressure air injection (HPAI). According to IOR Pioneers R.G. Moore (2010) and S.A. (Raj) Mehta (2014), while Koch Exploration Co. is credited with the world’s first field application of air injection IOR, it was Fassihi who introduced this technology in a 1994 technical paper.

“There is no question that Dr. Fassihi has made exceptional contributions to the current level of understanding as well as the development and testing of IOR processes which are based on air injection—either in situ combustion or High Pressure Air Injection,” said Moore and Mehta in their IOR Pioneer nominating letter.

“It is not an understatement to say that all of his air injection papers are must reads for any person interested in in situ com-bustion or HPAI processes,” Moore and Mehta said. “Dr. Fassihi has classified his air injection publications into the areas of fundamental research, development of engineering tools for performance evaluation, development of simulation techniques, and development of field applications. He is a true pioneer in all of these areas.”

Career pathPrior to his position with BHP Billiton, Dr. Fassihi worked for BP and its antecedents ARCO and Amoco.

He was a senior research engineer in ARCO Resources Technology’s Viscous Oil Recovery Group in Plano, Tex.; a staff engineer with the Amoco Research Center in Tulsa; a petroleum engineering associate with Amoco Eurasia in Houston; pre-project manager and subsurface team leader in BP’s Middle East business unit; and various team leader/managerial positions involving E&P technology, IOR, and unconventional oil for BP in Houston.

“There is no question that Dr. Fassihi has made exceptional contributions to the current level of understanding as well as the development and testing of IOR processes which are based on air injection—either in situ combustion or High Pressure Air Injection.”

IOR Pioneers R.G. Moore, S.A. Mehta

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CredentialsDr. Fassihi has served on the SPE/DOE IOR Symposium Technical Committee since 2006. He has served on the steering committee for a number of SPE Forums and is currently an SPEJ Associate Editor and a member of the SPE Editorial Review Committee.

His association with the Editorial Review Committee started in 1981. Fassihi served as Associate Editor for the IN SITU Journal from 1984 to 2003 and was a co-editor of the 2011 SPE book Reservoir Conformance Improvement.

He has also served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE.

From 1985 to 2007, Fassihi was a Visiting Lecturer teaching petroleum-related courses at the University of Petroleum and Sharif University in Iran. During this period he also served as Advisor to MS students at Imperial College (London) and the University of Petroleum (Iran).

Since 1999, he has served as a PhD External Examiner for the University of Surrey, University of Bath, and Herriot Watt, all in the UK, and at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Fassihi received a BSc in chemical engineering from the Abadan Institute of Technology, Abadan, Iran; an MSc in chemi-cal engineering from Stanford University; and a PhD in petroleum engineering from Stanford.

PIOneeR jeRauLd made HIs maRk In advanCIng wateRfLOOd teCHnOLOgYDr. Gary Jerauld is credited with making major advances in IOR that have enabled his employer, BP, to become the leader in two forms of EOR waterfloods: Brightwater and low-salinity.

Jerauld is Reservoir Engineering Advisor, EOR Flagship, at BP, which operates more conven-tional-oil EOR projects than its peers.

As a reservoir engineer with BP and its prede-cessor company ARCO, he has 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, working on a wide range of projects that include some of the world’s largest waterfloods, as well as huge offshore and deepwater projects, with a special emphasis on IOR. These are the credentials that have led his colleagues to name him an IOR Pioneer.

Career pathDr. Jerauld began his career as a reservoir engineer with ARCO, where he worked for 15 years until its acquisition by BP, for which he has worked 17 years.

He was the first at BP to apply the company’s proprietary Top Down Reservoir Modelling (TDRM) software to improve understanding of gas reservoirs. Additionally, he has applied TDRM modeling since its inception, using it to develop pseu-dos, or complex two-dimensional systems simplified to one-dimensional models, for miscible gas processes and low-salinity waterfloods and to understand single-well tracer tests.

A seasoned advisor and mentor to technical professionals in the areas of oil and gas E&P, reservoir management, EOR, and reservoir simulation, Dr. Jerauld devoted much of his early career to the fundamentals of multiphase flow in porous media;

“A deep technical expert with 30 years of experience in the oil and gas Industry, Gary is naturally inquisitive, a rigorous analyst, and a pragmatic problem solver,” wrote IOR Pioneer Randy Seright in his nominating letter. “He has always found himself at the interface between R&D and application, applying scientific understanding to generate value for the business, most often in understanding how to model EOR pro-cesses, to interpret lab and field results, to make meaningful forecasts, and to optimize projects based on those forecasts.”

IOR Pioneer Randy SerightJerauld

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he also developed the three-phase relative permeability correlation that was used for over 20 years to design and model three-phase processes at supergiant Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope.

“A deep technical expert with 30 years of experience in the oil and gas Industry, Gary is naturally inquisitive, a rigorous ana-lyst, and a pragmatic problem solver,” wrote IOR Pioneer Randy Seright in his nominating letter. “He has always found him-self at the interface between R&D and application, applying scientific understanding to generate value for the business, most often in understanding how to model EOR processes, to interpret lab and field results, to make meaningful forecasts, and to optimize projects based on those forecasts.”

CredentialsResearch Gate lists 39 papers for Jerauld, while 26 of his papers are listed within SPE’s OnePetro.

Dr. Jerauld received a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

PIOneeR kOkaL: aRCHIteCt Of saudI aRamCO’s ROadmaP fOR eORDescribed by his peers as the “architect of Saudi Aramco’s EOR Roadmap,” Dr. Sunil Kokal has been awarded the status of IOR Pioneer.

He currently serves as Principal Professional (Senior Advisor) and a Focus Area Champion of Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Reservoir Engineering Technology team of EXPEC Advanced Research Center at Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Since joining Aramco in 1993, he has been involved in applied research projects on EOR and IOR, reservoir fluids, hydrocarbon phase behavior, crude oil emulsions, and production-related challenges.

Dr. Kokal today leads a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians to develop a program for CO2 EOR in the kingdom and to conduct appropriate studies and field demonstration projects related to that effort.

Career pathDr. Kokal has 30+ years’ experience in all aspects of EOR: theoretical and experimental research, simulation, and field opera-tions.

Prior to joining Saudi Aramco, he was at the Petroleum Recovery Institute in Calgary for 6 years. He was instrumental in ini-tiating and supervising several field-related key projects there.

Kokal has written more than 100 technical papers and authored the chapters on “Crude Oil Emulsions” and “Reservoir Fluid Sampling” for the SPE Petroleum Engineering Handbook (2006).

Dr. Kokal has been the architect of the improved and enhanced oil recovery program for Saudi Aramco, noted Dr. Larry Lake, 2000 Pioneer: “He was instrumental in articulating and drawing Aramco’s IOR roadmap. Some of that vision is now bearing fruit with the deployment of the [Saudi Arabian] kingdom’s first EOR projects.”

Kokal also spearheaded Aramco’s first CO2 EOR demonstration project in Ghawar, the world’s largest oil field, where injec-tion has begun and has shown a very positive response, according to Dr. Lake.

“Dr. Kokal has been the architect of the improved and enhanced oil recovery program for Saudi Aramco. He was instrumental in articulating and drawing Aramco’s IOR roadmap. Some of that vision is now bearing fruit with the deployment of the [Saudi Arabian] kingdom’s first EOR projects...His vision and dedication are resulting in the possi-ble addition of tens of billions of barrels of oil reserves for the prolific Saudi Arabian reservoirs.”

2000 Pioneer Dr. Larry Lake

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“His vision and dedication are resulting in the possible addition of tens of billions of barrels of oil reserves for the prolific Saudi Arabian reservoirs,” Lake added.

Kokal’s contributions to the industry extend beyond the technical science of EOR. He established a center of excellence in IOR and EOR research in Dhahran, providing support for young talent to ensure the future of this industry, encouraging and increasing female geoscientists and engineers in the local industry, and developing and sustaining academia and industry col-laboration at a global level.

CredentialsDr. Kokal has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering and SPE’s Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal. He also has served on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (Canada).

Dr. Kokal’s honors include 2016 SPE Honorary Member, 2012 SPE DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, 2011 SPE Distinguished Service Award, the 2010 SPE Regional Technical award for Reservoir Description & Dynamics, and the 2008 SPE Distinguished Member Award for his services to the society.

He also served as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer during 2007-2008. Currently he is the Chair of the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Committee.

Kokal has a BS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada.

LandmaRk aRCtIC IOR PROjeCts HIgHLIgHt mCguIRe’s PIOneeRIng CaReeRLarge-scale EOR projects in far-flung locales—including above the Arctic Circle—have marked the career of Patrick McGuire as an IOR Pioneer.

Considered one of the world’s premier expects on miscible flood applications, McGuire’s 27-year career with BP and predecessor ARCO was spent largely on the Alaskan North Slope.

Career pathMcGuire managed start-up and multiple large-scale expan-sions of the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project (PBMGP), which is the world’s largest enriched gas WAG program. He developed several unconventional and very successful EOR concepts for Prudhoe Bay.

McGuire also won the ARCO Corporate Technology award for the North Slope’s Alpine oil field development plan, which successfully implemented a novel scheme for field wide-miscible WAG with horizontal wells at field start-up. He also was a key figure in the characterization of the huge viscous oil resource on North Slope, getting involved with the design and implementation of the West Sak waterflood pilot. He also identified, designed, and implemented large scale, inno-vative advanced oil recovery projects for PrudhoeBay, Eileen West End, Aurora, Borealis, Orion, Polaris, Northstar, West Sak, Lisburne, and Milne Point fields—all on the North Slope of Alaska.

“Patrick [McGuire] is one of the pre-mier experts on applications of misci-ble flooding.”

2008 Pioneer Randy Seright

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As a senior advisor at BP Alaska, McGuire evaluated gas injection opportunities for the entire BP/TNK portfolio in Russia. He developed extensive laboratory programs for equation of state characterization of key Siberian assets and designed WAG pilot programs for several fields. He also developed the curriculum and taught the Gas IOR Masterclass for BP.

Earlier in his career, McGuire worked in engineering support positions at Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. He also worked in thermal recovery for ARCO in California’s San Joaquin Valley heavy oil giants.

After retiring from BP, he served as lead reservoir engineer at Maersk Oil and Gas for 5 years, where he evaluated gas injec-tion and low salinity-EOR opportunities across Maersk’s worldwide portfolio.

McGuire has continued to evaluate gas injection and low- salinity EOR opportunities in Middle East, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, Argentina, West Africa, and Brazil.

In his current role as Senior Consultant, Reservoir Engineering, at International Reservoir Technologies Inc., he has contin-ued to focus on designing and implementing large-scale EOR projects, including laboratory programs and pilot field tests.

CredentialsMcGuire published 24 SPE papers—many of which are considered to be classics in the area of miscible flooding, according to 2008 Pioneer Randy Seright. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer during 1998-1999.

HE holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico.

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