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Past Awarded Papers/Posters

Board Meeting September 11, 2014: “Going forward there will be no awards for Best Poster and Best Young Professional Poster.”

2021

COVID – No Rankins

2020

COVID – No Rankings

2019

Best Paper and Best Young Professional Paper

SCA026: Using Capillary Condensation and Evaporation Isotherms to Investigate Confined Fluid Phase Behavior in Shales. Elizabeth Barsotti, Evan Lowry, Mohammad Piri, and Jin-Hong Chen

2018

Best Paper
SCA2018_017: Andrea Valori and Benjamin Nicot. “A review of 60 Years of NMR Wettability”.

Best Young Professional Paper
Paper SCA2018_016: Matthieu Mascle, Herve Deschamps, Souhail youssef “In-situ investigation of aging protocol effects on relative permeability measurements using high throughput experimentation methods”

2017

Best Paper
SCA2017-017 Microstructural Investigation of Stress Dependent Permeability in Tight Oil Rocks
H. King, M. Sansone, P. Kortunov, Y. Xu, N. Callen, S. Chhatre, H. Sahoo, A. Buono

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2017-004 A Blind Study of Four Digital Rock Physics Vendor Labs on Porosity, Absolute Permeability, and Primary Drainage Capillary Pressure Data on Tight Outcrops
S. Chhatre, H. Sahoo, S. Leonardi, K. Vidal, J. Rainey, E. Braun, P. Patel

2016

Best Paper
SCA2016-009 Flow Regimes During Immiscible Displacement
R.T. Armstrong, J.E. McClure, M.A. Berill, M. Rücker, S. Schlüter, S. Berg

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2016-011 Wettability Effects on Osmosis as an Oil Mobilization Mechanism during Low Salinity Waterflooding
S.B. Fredriksen, A.U. Rognmo, K. Sandengen, M.A. Fernø

2015

Best Paper/ Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2015-019 The Impact of Reservoir Conditions on Multiphase Flow in the CO2-Brine System in Permeable Sandstone
S. Krevor, C. Reynolds, A. Al-Menhali and B. Niu

2014

Best Paper
SCA2014-22 Imbibition on the Pore Scale: Onset of Oil Mobilization and Cluster Size Distribution
S. Berg, R.T. Armstrong, A. Georgiadis, H. Ott, A. Schwing, R. Neiteler, N. Brussee, A. Makurat, M. Rücker, L. Leu, M. Wolf, F. Khan, F. Enzmann, M. Kersten

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2014-10 Magnetic Resonance Core Analysis at 0.3T
Jonathan Mitchell

2013

Best Paper
SCA2013-028 Drainage three-phase flow relative permeability on oil-wet carbonate reservoir rock types: experiments, interpretation and comparison with standard correlations.
P. Egermann, K. Mejdoub, J.-M. Lombard, O. Vizika and Z. Kalam

Best Poster
SCA2013-067 A microstructure description of the relationship between formation resistivity factor and porosity
Carl Fredrik Berg

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2013-014 Direct hydrodynamic simulation of multiphase flow in porous rock
D. Koroteev, O. Dinariev, N. Evseev, D. Klemin, A. Nadeev, S. Safonov, O. Gurpinar, S. Berg, C. Van Kruijsdijk, R. Armstrong, M.T. Myers, L. Hathon, H. de Jong

Best Young Professional Poster
SCA2013-069 The REV challenge – estimating respresentative elementary volumes and porous rock inhomogeneity from high resolution micro-CT data sets
Matthias Halisch

2012

Best Paper
SCA2012-28 Combining electrical measurements and mercury porosimetry to predict permeability
D. Ruth, C. Lindsay and M. Allen

Best Poster
SCA2012-55 Estimation of curvature from micro-CT liquid-liquid displacement studies with pore scale resolution
R. Armstrong, C. Pentland, S. Berg, J. Hummel, D. Lichau and L. Bernard

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2012-25 The “Step Decay” : A new transient method for the simultaneous determination of intrinsic permeability, Klinkenberg coefficient and porosity on very tight rocks
Didier Lasseux, Yves Jannot, Sandra Profice, Mathieu Mallet and Gerald Hamon

Best Young Professional Poster
SCA2012-45 First non-contact mini-permeameter
Naim Al-Jabari, Dave Bowen, Brian Smart, Jim Somerville

2011

Best Paper
SCA2011-22 Use of a new impedance cell and 3D MRI to obtain fast and accurate Resistivity Index measurements from a single centrifuge step
N. Bona, B. Bam, M. Pirrone and E. Rossi

Best Poster
SCA2011-37 The Structure of Residual Oil as a Function of Wettability Alteration Using Pore-Scale Network Modelling
K.S. Sorbie, A.V. Ryazanov and M.I.J. van Dijke

Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2011-13 Gas Phase Relative Permeability Characterization on Tight Gas Samples
Y. Wang, Z. Chen, V. Morah, R. J. Knabe, and M. Appel

Best Young Professional Poster
SCA2011-58 A Closer Look at Shale: Representative Elementary Volume Analysis with Laboratory 3D X-Ray Computed Microtomography & Nanotomography,
J. Gelb, A. Gu, T. Fong, L. Hunter, S.H. Lau & W. Yun

2010

Best Paper/ Best Young Professional Paper
SCA2010-30 Permeability characterization on tight gas samples using pore pressure oscillation method
Y. Wang and R.J. Knabe

Best Poster/ Best Young Professional Poster
SCA2010-35 Well site stabilization and packaging – the first step in acquiring undisturbed core
J.-V. Garcia, J. Rousseau and D. Dourel

2009

Best Paper
SCA2009-12 Direct Experimental Evidence of Wettability Modification by Low Salinity Flooding
Steffen Berg, Arjen Cense, Elmer Jansen and Kirsten Bakker.

Best Poster
SCA2009-33 Anomalous declines in liquid permeability
Nicola Bona, M. Anelli and M. Rosania

2008

Best Paper
SCA2008-16 – Wettability effects on the pore scale distribution of fluids
Munish Kumar, Tim Senden, Mark A. Knackstedt, Robert M. Sok, Adrian P. Sheppard, Christoph Arns, Yildiray Cinar and Val Pinczewski

Best Poster
SCA2008-44 An Integrated Petrophysical Analysis to Evaluate Low Resistivity Low Contrast (LRLC) Pays in Clastic Reservoirs in SE Asia based on Core and Log Data.
Lutz Riepe*, A Sharby B A Hamid, M Hafiz Ridhuan B Hamzah, M Nizam B M Zain.

2007

Best Paper
SCA2007-05 Clay Typing – Sensitive Quantification and Anisotropy in Synthetic and Natural Reservoir Samples using Magnetic Susceptibility for Improved Petrophysical Appraisals
David K. Potter and Oleksandr P. Ivakhnenko

Best Poster
SCA2007-51 Surprising Trends on Trapped Hydrocarbon Saturation with Wettability
V. S. Suicmez, M. Piri and M. Blunt

2006

Best Paper
SCA2006-36 Low Salinity Oil Recovery – An Experimental Investigation
Arnaud Lager, Kevin Webb and Cliff Black

Best Poster
SCA2006-41 A New Method for Characterizing the Pore Structure Heterogeneities in Carbonate Core Samples
I. Chatzis and N. Rezaei

2005

Best Paper
SCA2005-01 Crude Oil/Brine Interfacial Tensions
J. Buckley & T. Fan

Best Poster
Simultaneous Determination of the Two-phase Flow and Hydrodynamic Dispersion Coefficients of Hetergeneous Soils From Transient Immiscible and Miscible Displacement Experiments
Christos Aggelopoulos and Christos D. Tsakiroglou

2004

Best Paper
SCA2004-13 Multiphase Flow Behaviour in Vugular Carbonates Using X-Ray CT
P. Olivier, L. Cantegrel, J. Laveissière & N. Guillonneau

Best Poster
SCA2004-42 Angstrom to Millimetre Characterization of Rock Pore Structure and the Prediction of Conductivity and Permeability Thereof
E.S. Amirtharaj and M.A. Ioannidis

2003

Best Paper
SCA2003-36 Impact of SCAL on Carbonate Reservoirs: How Capillary Forces Can Affect Field Performance Predictions
S.K. Masalmeh, X.D. Jing, W. van Vark, S. Christiansen, H. van der Weerd, J. van Dorp “

Best Poster
SCA2003-47 Focussed Ion Beam Assisted Three-dimensional Rock Imaging at Submicron Scale
L. Tomutsa and F. Radmilovic

2002

Best Paper
SCA2002-24 Effect of Capillary, Viscous and Gravity Forces on Gas Condensate Mobility
O. Vizika & F. Kalaydjian

2001

Best Paper
SCA2001-9 In Situ Porosity from Cores: The Rock Mechanics Approach to Overburden Correction
R.M. Holt, C. Lehr, C.J. Kenter, P. Spits

SCA2001-21 Scaling of Viscosity Ratio for Oil Recovery by Imbibition from Mixed-Wet Rocks
Z. Tong, X. Xie, N.R. Morrow

2000

Best Paper
SCA2000-23 Influence of Heterogeneity, Wettability and Coreflood Design on Relative Permeability Curves
G. Hamon and C. Roy

1999

Best Paper
SCA1999-13 Positive Imbibition Capillary Pressure Curves Using the Centrifuge Technique
M. Fleury, G. Ringot and P. Poulain

1998

Best Paper
SCA1998-29 Frim: A Fast Resistivity Index Measurement Method
M. Fleury

1997

Best Paper
SCA1997-29 Dual Range FT-IR Mineralogy and the Analysis of Sedimentary Formations
Michael M. Herron, Abigail Matteson and Gale Gustavson

1996

Best Paper
SCA1996-15 Combined Resistivity and Capillary Pressure Measurements Using Microscope Membrane Technique
M. Fleury and D. Longeron

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