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<h2 style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">MS Thesis Defense</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></h2>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Low Interfacial Tension Foam Miscible Ethane Oil Recovery in Low Permeability Harsh Environments</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Mohamad Salman</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Thursday, November 15, 2018</span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Location:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">ConocoPhillips Petroleum Engineering Building (9) Rm 124</span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Time:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">2:00 pm—4:00 pm</span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Committee Chair:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Dr. Konstantinos Kostarelos</span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Committee Members:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Dr. Birol Dindoruk</span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Dr. Sujeewa Palayangoda</span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Dr. Mohamed Soliman</span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">This work presents a laboratory investigation of low interfacial tension miscible ethane foam enhanced oil recovery in low permeability, heterogeneous,
harsh environments (<15md, 136,000ppm total dissolved solids with divalent ions, 74°C). Minimum miscibility pressure displacement tests were performed for dead crude oil from the Wolfcamp Spraberry trend area using ethane and carbon dioxide, showing a lower
MMP for ethane. A surfactant formulation capable of persistent foams in the presence of oil and Type I microemulsion in reservoir brine was identified. Subsequent foam quality and coreflood displacement tests were conducted to compare the recovery efficiencies
of: a) miscible ethane foam process; b) to gravity stable, and; c) unstable miscible ethane processes.</span></p>
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