IOR Pioneer award for Bill Rossen
22 February 2012 by Webredactie CITG
Prof. Bill Rossen will be presented with the IOR Pioneer award at the Eighteenth Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, to be held by the Society of Petroleum Engineers in April in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA).
The IOR symposium in Tulsa is the world's premier meeting on improved and enhanced oil recovery. The IOR Pioneer award is awarded every other year to between three and five leaders in the field of IOR research from around the world. The award is a recognition of Rossen's research efforts in the field of IOR, especially on foam IOR, which has been his primary research focus for 25 years.
About Bill Rossen
Rossen is Professor of Reservoir Engineering and Head of the Petroleum Engineering research group in the Department of Geotechnology of Delft University of Technology. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT, where he was awarded the Haslam Cup for the top Chemical Engineering graduate, and a PhD degree, also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include foam for improved oil recovery (IOR), well stimulation, sweep efficiency in gas-injection IOR, and modeling complex displacement processes in porous media, including fractured reservoirs. For 25 years he has studied the mechanisms and modeling of foam for IOR, from pore-scale mechanisms of foam generation and mobility to core-scale modeling and experiments, and scale-up to field-scale processes. His research interests include thermodynamics, transport phenomena, percolation theory and fractional-flow methods.
