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