Surface Chemistry - "Lo-Sal"
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss common interests, in view of defining possible future research topics.
Participants:
From Stavanger – Prof. Tor Austad, Reservoir Engineering; Skule Strand, PhD Student; Tine Puntervold, PhD student (unfortunately unable to attend)
From Mærsk Oil and Gas – Finn Engstrøm, Principal Petrophysicist (unfortunately cannot attend); Karen Henriksen, Geologist and Søren Frank, Petrophysicist
From BP – Ian Collins, R&D Program Manager, Pushing Reservoir Limits (unfortunately cannot attend); Arnaud Lager, Reservoir Engineer; Kevin Webb, Reservoir Engineer and Project Manager
From University of Copenhagen (KU) – NanoGeoScience Group and Friends
Tuesday, 2 February
7:20 – Stavanger Guests arrive at Kastrup and transport to H.C. Ørsted Institute, Universitetsparken 5
(~8:15 – morgen kaffe og brød)
9:00 – Welcome and Introduction
The Department of Chemistry and how Nano-Science Research fits the Department Profile
Mikael Bols
9:20 – Overview of the NanoGeoScience Group: Facilities and Research - and Discussion
Susan Stipp
10:20 – Overview of the Stavanger Group: Facilities and Research Direction - and Discussion
Tor Austad
11:20 – Coffee; Discussion
all
11:40 – Wettability alteration in chalk by seawater: Effects of carboxylic acids and salinity
Skule Strand
12:25 – Lunch in the NanoGeoScience meeting room and tour of the lab
13:15 – Discussion of the chemical mechanism of low saline flooding
Tor Austad
14:00 – Low saline flooding: Adsorption/desorption of model polar components onto kaolinite
Tina Puntervold – presented by Tor Austad
14:45 – X-ray reflectivity, small and wide angle scattering, microtomography, and applications
Robert Feidenhans’l
15:15 – Coffee and Discussion
15:30 – Atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy and examples
Tue Hassenkam
16:15 – Surface spectroscopy and examples
Nico Bovet
16:45 – Theoretical approaches and examples
Mingjun Yang
17:15 – Discussion, Identification of Overlap Topics and Refreshments
all
18:00 – leave for Dinner and more discussion
19:00 – Dinner at ??
Wednesday, 3 February
9:00 – Discussion, segmented into groups for particular topics, with supplements of small, information talks and data presentation; Identification of common projects and planning for future work
11:45 – Lunch at the Biotek building
12:15 – Discussion continues; some concrete plans for projects
~14:00 – Stavanger Guests leave for Kastrup for flight at 16:05