Speaker David Torres, PhD, SCAL Laboratories Manager, Stratum Reservoir
David Torres is the manager for the Special Core Analysis laboratories in Houston. His group includes Fluid Flow, Electrical Properties, NMR, Rock Mechanics, Centrifuge, and Fluids (PVT & Water Analysis).
David holds a Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a …
David Torres is the manager for the Special Core Analysis laboratories in Houston. His group includes Fluid Flow, Electrical Properties, NMR, Rock Mechanics, Centrifuge, and Fluids (PVT & Water Analysis).
David holds a Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Technical Institute and Jesuit University of Guadalajara Mexico. He is a native Spanish speaker, and he is fluent in English, French, and German.
With over six years of experience as a senior reservoir engineer working for ConocoPhillips at the Bartlesville Research Center in Oklahoma, David led the development of a Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) program for a major Alaskan reservoir. This program proved successful displacement of residual oil from water flooding in the field via single well chemical tracer test (in 2013 by injecting an alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) formulation. David and other members of the team were awarded a special recognition for such efforts. The developed ASP formulation proved to recover more than 95% of the oil residual to water flooding in the laboratory and in the field. He also collaborated in a CEOR program for a Norwegian reservoir. At ConocoPhillips he also worked in the Subsurface Technology Group collaborating in a project for shale gas reservoirs developing a prototype user interface.
At the University of Texas, he worked for four years in a volatile oil project to mitigate gas banking and restore well productivity by implementing a fluorinated treatment to alter the wettability of the near wellbore rock. Sponsored by 3M he published as an author and co-author four society of petroleum engineers (SPE) papers on this topic. During his graduate studies he also collaborated with CO2 injection projects, as well as CO2 sequestration.
David has strong background in core and fluid measurements and characterization, rheology, chromatography, tomography, and microscopy. For him safety is a top priority and he was an active member of safety committees at ConocoPhillips and at the University of Texas at Austin.
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