Tentative Program
Please Note: The Conference Program below is not in its final version, adjustments will occur. Final Program will be available two months before the conference date.
BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of
Well Stimulation and EOR

(WSEOR-2012)

Theme: Economic Challenges, Innovation, and Sustainability
Time: April 25-27, 2012
Venue: Xi'an, China

 

Track 1: Modern Well Stimulation Technologies
Session 1-1: Reservoir and Well Characterization to Management
Session 1-2: Reservoir Modeling
Session 1-3: Improved Drilling Performance, down hole Tools and Tubulars
Session 1-4: Novel Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies
Session 1-5 Deep Matrix Acidizing Technologies
Session 1-6 Novel and Robust Well Stimulation Fluids
Session 1-7 Geophysics, Geomechanics, Seismology in Well Stimulation

 

Track 2: Physical EOR and IOR
Session 2-1: Thermal Processes for a Heavy Oil Reservoir
Session 2-2: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Technologies 
Session 2-3: Fire/Combustion Flooding EOR Technologies
Session 2-4: Electromagnetic, Ultrasonic and Elastic Wave Stimulation EOR

 

Track 3: Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Session 3-1: Gas Injection Technologies-CO2, Nitrogen and Air
Session 3-2: Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) Flooding and Other Waterflood Enhancements
Session 3-3: Coupling Gas and Polymer Injection Technologies
Session 3-4: Nature Polymers, Synthetic Polymers, Surfactants for IOR/EOR
Session 3-5: Water Control and Formation Profiling
Session 3-6: Novel Scale Inhibitors and Removal Methods

 

Track 4: Biochemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Session 4-1: Biopolymer-Surfactant EOR Technologies-Coupling Water Control and Formation Profiling
Session 4-2: Enzyme Enhanced Oil Recovery
Session 4-3: Biosurfactants and Biopolymers for EOR of Heavy Oil
Session 4-4: Selective Biomaterial Plugging Strategies for Water Control
Session 4-5:Special Challenges in Carbonates EOR and Novel Biochemical Acidizing Technology for Carbonate Formation

 

Track 5: Well Bore Cleanup, Permeability Improvement and Formation Damage Control
Session 5-1: Low cost and effective emulsion breakers and Novel Paraffin Removal Technology
Session 5-2: Microbial and Enzymatic Block Removal for Horizontal/Multilateral Drilling Mud Skin Damages
Session 5-3: Injection Wells Damage Characterization and Control
Session 5-4: Completion Workover Technology and Block Removal Technology
Session 5-5: Damage Characterization and Control in Tight Sands and Shale Reservoirs
Session 5-6: Advancement in Sand Control Technology
Session 5-7Novel Water shutoff Technique