Chemical Methods

Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh is currently an associate professor at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He is also an adjunct professor at Jilin University and Northeast Petroleum University in China. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, an MSc in hydrocarbon reservoir engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery processes, heavy oil systems, nanotechnology, and applications of intelligent models in the petroleum industry. Abdolhossein has been awarded as a distinguished graduate MSc student, was an honor PhD student, and a recipient of the National Elites Foundation Scholarship. He works as an associate professor in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He has published over 150 journal articles, three books, several conference proceedings, and earned one patent in 2016. Mahin Schaffie is currently Professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. She was previously director of department of petroleum engineering as well as energy & environmental engineering research center at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Her research interests include enhanced oil recovery, nano and biotechnology and separation science and engineering. She earned a MSc in applied technical chemistry, a PhD in chemical and petroleum engineering, and a specialized certificate in environmental engineering, all from the Technical University Clausthal in Germany. She has won many awards and national fundings. Mahin has authored one book, over 25 technical reports, more than120 journal papers and four patents. Mohammad Ranjbar is currently a professor of mining and petroleum engineering at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He is also Director of Mineral Industries Research Center at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering and a MSc in applied technical chemistry from Technical University Clausthal in Germany. His research interests include surface phenomena, enhanced oil recovery, biotechnology and separation science and engineering. He has won many awards and received funding for over 30 European and national research projects. Mohammad has authored two books, more than 130 journal papers, four international patents and over 45 technical reports. Mingzhe Dong, PhD. P.Eng is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum. He earned a BASc from Northwest University in China, a MASc from the China University of Petroleum, and a PhD from the University of Waterloo in Canada，all in chemical engineering. His industry and academic research experience include Industry Post-Doctoral Fellow at Imperial Oil in Calgary, Senior Research Engineer at the Saskatchewan Research Council, Professor at University of Regina, and Professor at University of Calgary. His research areas are flow in porous media, interfacial phenomena, enhanced oil recovery, unconventional resources development, and CO2 sequestration. He has co-authored 260 journal papers, 70 conference papers, 35 patents, and over 45 industry and government reports. Zhaomin Li is currently a professor and vice president of China University of Petroleum (East China). His research interests are in oil production engineering theory and technology, application of foam fluids in oil and gas development, and heavy oil. He is also an executive director of the Shandong Petroleum Institute in foam fluids and vice chairman of the Shandong Ocean Development Research Association. He has won many awards and received funding for more than 50 national scientific research projects. He has obtained 68 invention patents, including 7 US patents. He earned a PhD from the China University of Petroleum (Beijing), an MS from Shandong University, and a BS from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.

• 1. Introduction to enhanced oil recovery: Fundamental and applications2. Polymer flooding3. Enhanced oil recovery using surfactants4. Alkaline flooding5. Alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP)6. Improved oil recovery by gel technology: water shut-off and conformance control7. Smart water injection (low salinity water flooding)8. Natural surfactant flooding in enhanced oil recovery processes9. Combination of chemical methods10. Chemical flooding in unconventional reservoir11. Formation damage during chemical flooding