Our Experts

Christophe is General Manager of EOR at Solvay, where he oversees technical, business and operational activities in EOR. As a member of the global leadership team of the EOR Alliance, he is jointly setting priorities for the Alliance, and is leading its development in several geographies.
Christophe Couesnon has a wide and international experience in the field of Oil and Gas, field engineer for Elf in Brunei, development and operational management position in chemical oilfiedl services in CECA-Arkema, and industrial chemistry development and supply chain in Solvay. He holds an MSc in chemicals from ESCOM (1994).

Dr Mikel Morvan, is the EOR Alliance Technical Director. In his current assignment he is responsible for setting and developing the chemical EOR Research & Development program within The Alliance and for feeding the innovation pipe-lines. He ensures coordination of global R&D activities on chemical EOR (Europe, USA, Asia).
Prior to this appointment, Mikel served as Director of Complex Fluids Laboratory (Bristol, New-Jersey, USA) a joint laboratory between Rhodia and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He obtained his PhD in chemistry from University of Paris VI in 1993 with specialization in physical-chemistry. His domain of expertise deals with soft condensed matter with a focus on polymer and surfactant science. He is author and co-author of more than 75 patents and papers dealing with colloids.

Guillaume Degré joined Solvay in 2007 as a research engineer. His activities have been initially focused on the design as well as performance evaluation of EOR formulations using innovative screening tools (robotics and microfluidics) and on the development of new surfactant chemistries. He has then managed challenging SP projects for the EOR Alliance mainly with National Oil Companies. Since 2016, he has been EOR lab manager at Solvay. Guillaume holds a PhD. in Physics (Univ. Paris VI) and a MSc. in Chemical Engineering (ESPCI, Paris).

Nicolas Wartenberg joined Solvay in 2013 as a research engineer. Since then he has been involved in surfactant polymer formulation design for EOR application. He has performed and managed several chemical EOR studies over the world for different challenging conditions such as low permeability, high temperature or heavy oil reservoirs.
Nicolas is in charge of the R&D program on surfactant polymer flooding technology for Solvay in collaboration with The EOR Alliance partners. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from University of Lyon I, a MSc in Chemical Engineering from ENSCMu (Mulhouse) and a MSc in Physical-Chemistry from Haute-Alsace University.

Sabrina Hocine is a physical chemist at Solvay, member of the EOR Alliance. Hocine’s current research interests include soft matter, surfactant and polymer formulation and their chemistry applied to Chemical EOR. She holds a general engineering degree in physics, chemistry and biology from Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI, Paris) and a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Paris Descartes University.

Jean-François Argillier is Program Manager on EOR and Water management IFPEN.
He was project manager on EOR in fractured carbonate and theme coordinator on impact of chemical EOR on topside. His technical expertise concerns complex fluids in EOR, in particular, emulsions, foams, surfactants, polymers, encountered in enhanced oil recovery and water management. Jean-Francois graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI) and holds a PhD in EOR polymer flooding (1989 – Paris Sorbonne University).

Eric Delamaide is a reservoir engineer with 30 years of experience who specializes in Enhanced Oil Recovery and heavy oil. He is currently General Manager of IFP Technologies (Canada) Inc. in Calgary as well as the Manager EOR, Americas for the EOR Alliance. Eric has a degree in chemical engineering from the School of Mines in Saint Etienne, and a Master in Petroleum Engineering from the IFP School, both in France. He joined IFP (Institut Français du Pétrole) in 1990 before moving to Calgary in 1999 to run its Canadian operations. Eric has worked in over 25 countries and been involved in various capacities in over 40 EOR projects including over 25 polymer floods. He is currently a Principal engineer and lead EOR expert; in that capacity he supports and leads EOR projects worldwide.
Eric has published over 60 papers on reservoir engineering and EOR and has served on multiple conference technical committees and workshops including ATCE, SPE Heavy Oil, Tulsa IOR/EOR, LACPEC, IPTC, SPE EOR at OGWA, MEOS and ADIPEC. He is a member of the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Committee, an Associate Editor for the SPE Reservoir Engineering Journal and Technical Editor for the SPE Journal. He is a Professional Engineer registered at the Association of Professional Engineer and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), a member of SPE and EAGE. He has received awards for outstanding servics as Technical Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering every year between 2014-2020 as well as one for SPE Journal in 2016. He received the SPE Canadian Region Service Award in 2018 and the SPE Distinguished Member Award in 2019.

David Rousseau is a Technical Advisor for Chemical EOR Methods at IFP Energies Nouvelles.
Since 20 years, David has been working on: rheology of polymer melts and polymer gels, water shut-off and conformance control based on microgels and associative polymers, formation damage modeling during produced water re-injection, development and evaluation of polymer and surfactant based EOR methods for various types of reservoirs (carbonates, heavy oil, HT/HS, etc.). He is presently managing the R&D activities of the EOR Alliance on polymer / surfactant-polymer / alkaline-surfactant-polymer processes. David holds an MSc. in Physics (Univ. Paris 6) and a PhD in Soft Matter Physics (Univ. Strasbourg).

Samir Bekri joined IFPEN in 2001 as a research engineer. Since then he has been involved in R&D studies and customer EOR projects. He has performed and managed several experimental studies and interpretation of laboratory data for Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer process and Special core analysis (SCAL) studies. His research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil recovery, pore-scale modelling of displacement processes and CO2 sequestration. He authored or co-authored more than 80 papers (h-index=24) and holds 7 patents. He holds a PhD degree in Heat and Mass Transfer from “Ecole Centrale de Paris”. He was awarded the Schlumberger prize “Michel Gouilloud” from French Academy Sciences.

MH Klopffer has a physical chemistry background: graduated from ESPCI Paris (1993), and then obtained a PhD degree from the University Paris 6 (1996). Working at IFPEN for 21 years, she was in charge during 12 years of an industrial project dealing with the specification and the qualification of new materials for transportation in the Oil & Gas field. Since 2018, she is the project manager of “Impact of chemical EOR on the overall produced water cycle”. She is responsible for the DolphinTM JIP (Joint Industry Project) bringing together oil industry partners. The phase 3 of this JIP has begun in December 2019 and studies the impact of additives used by chemical EOR technology on produced water management, in conditions representative of oil fields.

Valentin is EOR senior project manager and research engineer in petrophysics and chemical EOR at IFPEN, where he oversees technical activities in surfactant-polymer EOR projects. He ensures project coordination and technical realization of the laboratory activities. He has 8+ year of experience in this area and worked for over 8+ projects all over the world, leading to around 5 field trials (SWCTT and interwell). His field of expertise are core selection and characterization, supervision and analysis of oil and brine, supervision and analysis of petrophysical experiments (CCAL, SCAL, Polymer flood, SP flood, etc.) and porescale simulation.
He holds a PhD in petrophysics, a MSc in hydrodynamics and flow in porous media (ENSG Nancy) and a MSc in the same area and water management of ENGEES Strasbourg.

Guillaume Batot joined IFP Energies Nouvelles as a Petrophysicist Engineer in 2014, he is in charge of R&D projects dedicated to Foams and CO2 injections for EOR. His current topics of research are: CO2 transport in porous media for EOR purposes, foams for improved gas injections, and digital rock physics (DRP). Former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS), where is studied theoretical physics, Guillaume holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and a M.S. in Complex Physics from the University Paris-VI (UPMC).

Joined Beicip-Franlab (IFP Group) in 2004 and his experience covers all type of fields, from specialized study to Field Development Plan and from data analysis and modelling to simulation.
Since early 2013, he is leading the EOR team composed of more than ten reservoir engineers specialized in EOR, in this frame is in charge in charge of technological development for the EOR activities related to reservoir engineering.

Within the EOR Alliance he is project manager and advisor, as such has participated more than 10 EOR studies (EOR screening, polymer floods, surfactant-polymer floods, foam, N2 injection, SAGD, heavy oil …). This experience was used in studying very various fields: in Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Asia and South America; for heavy, light and condensate fields; for sandstone and carbonate fields, for green to very mature fields.
Martin holds a MSc and Engineering degree in Reservoir Engineering & Petroleum Geosciences (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG), Nancy, France).

Guillaume Suzanne joined Beicip-Franlab in 2013 as a reservoir engineer. Since then he has been involved in a dozen of EOR studies including surfactant-based application (low-IFT surfactants to untrap residual oil as well foaming surfactants to improve steam-based process (steam-foam)). As part of these studies, the reservoir engineering tasks involved a thorough review of field historical production and injection data, reservoir simulation (numerical simulation of coreflood experiments to calibrate EOR parameters, sector-scale and field-scale simulations of forecasted EOR scenarios), identification and selection of relevant pilot areas, subsurface pilot designing and preliminary economics to assess the viability of the process application.
Guillaume is also very active internally in the area of modern data science techniques applied to oil and gas domain to enhance the efficiency of data-related operations (data collection/import, data manipulation/wrangling, data visualization and modelling) and innovate data-driven workflows. He was the Abu Dhabi-based EOR focal point for the group in the Middle East region in 2016 and 2017. He holds a MSc (major in Geosciences) from ‘Ecole des Mines de Paris’ (Paris School of Mines).

Andrés Negre is a reservoir modeling and simulation engineer specialized in chemical EOR, Water Shut-Off and conformance control. Andrés has more than 12 years’ experience in working with integrated reservoir studies, EOR theoretical studies and EOR field implementation. Since June 2014, Andres has been appointed Project Leader for integrated EOR (CO2, P, SP injection) feasibility studies (including laboratory works, simulation modeling and process implementation) performed by the EOR Alliance.
Andrés has confirmed reservoir simulation experience with oil (light and heavy), gas and condensate fields with advanced simulations skills covering most of the EOR methods. Andrés holds a MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Poitier University (2008).

Amir Soltani joined Beicip-Franlab in 2015 as a senior reservoir engineer. Before then, he was an operational reservoir engineer at Equinor (Statoil) in Norway. He has a wide range of operational and technical skills from well planning to field development and economy. In Beicip-Franlab, he has been involved in several EOR studies such as gas injection and surfactant-polymer flooding. He holds a MSc in Reservoir Engineering and Geoscience from IFP-School and a PhD in Rock Physics from Nancy University.