In-Person
Where: The Petroleum Club of Shreveport, 15th floor
Cost: $20, Children 10 and under $8
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Virtual
Where: Zoom
Cost: $10
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Biography
Bo Lu
Bo Lu, PhD in Petroleum Engineering with UT Austin, also has BS and MS in Geology. Bo started his career as a reservoir engineer with BP, rotated between technology function and asset teams. He joined Noble Energy in 2014 as Reservoir Engineer Advisor for Africa and GOM BU, and later in Business Development. Together with other partners, Bo founded UltRecovery Corp in 2017 to help operators to do EOR with proprietary microbial technology. In August 2021, UltRecovery was acquired by Rockwater Energy Solutions, a subsidiary company to Select Energy (“WTTR”). Bo joined Rockwater as Sr. Director to lead the EOR technology and services.
Abstract
Waterflooding is a widely used approach to get more recovery from conventional reservoir, however the geological heterogeneity of reservoir brings challenges to waterflooding efficiency. A microbial technology has been developed to improve the conformance control of water flooding, which utilize indigenous bacteria to plug preferred water channels. This technology has been applied to many fields in US and Canada, with substantial increase of waterflooding efficiency and reservoir recovery. The bio-surfactant produced by microbes will change interfacial tension of oil/water in reservoir, thus more oil can be recovered. In addition, the selected beneficial microbes are helpful to prevent reservoir souring with H2S. This presentation will introduce the microbial technology from lab to field implementation.
