OGJ Special Production Report Technology, experience speed CO2 flood design

Chia-Fu Hsu, Rena L. Koinis, Charles E. Fox Shell Western E&P Inc. Houston Off-the-shelf and new technology provide operators with ways to revive production from many oil fields nearing their economic limit. Evaluation of CO2 floods can now be made with confidence. New technology such as frac packing has changed the completion procedures for gas and oil wells, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. A U.S. Department of Energy program demonstrates the potential for recovering additional oil from

Oct. 30, 1995

Chia-Fu Hsu is a staff reservoir engineer with Shell Western E&P Inc. in Houston. He is responsible for the Bennett Ranch CO2 project design and has worked for Shell since 1981 in various aspects of reservoir management, reservoir simulation, and simulator development. Hsu holds an MS degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Kentucky and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Rena L. Koinis is a staff reservoir engineer with Shell Western E&P Inc. in Houston. She is responsible for CO2 project evaluation and design and has been with Shell since 1980, working in a variety of technical and management positions. Koinis holds a BS in chemical engineering from Montana State University.

Charles E. Fox is chief engineer--CO2 marketing for Shell Western E&P Inc. He is responsible for marketing CO2 supply and coordinating technical support for customer EOR projects. Formerly, he was a reservoir engineer in the Wasson field for Shell Western and the chief drilling engineer for the Al Furat Petroleum Co. in Syria. Fox received a BS in mechanical engineering from Rice University and an MS in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.