Mr. Patrick L. McGuire
SENIOR CONSULTANT - ENGINEERING
Mr. McGuire is a Reservoir Engineer with 44 years of energy industry experience. He is a world-class expert in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and has worked on gas injection and low salinity EOR opportunities across the world. He worked for many years designing and implementing advanced oil recovery processes for the North Slope of Alaska, which is home to North America.s largest oil fields and some of the world's largest EOR projects. Mr. McGuire previously worked for Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratories doing various forms of energy research. He authored two technical papers on drilling technology while at Sandia, and four technical papers on the development of methane hydrates as an energy resource while at Los Alamos. He authored numerous technical papers on Enhanced Oil Recovery while working for ARCO and BP. Mr. McGuire holds seven U. S. patents.
While serving as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers during 1998 and 1999, Mr. McGuire addressed over 30 SPE sections in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. His EOR papers have been peer-reviewed and published in various SPE journals.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 to Present - Senior Consultant - Reservoir Engineer, International Reservoir Technologies, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado
Evaluated gas injection and low salinity EOR opportunities in Middle East, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, Argentina, West Africa, and Brazil. Continued focus on designing and implementing large scale EOR projects, including laboratory programs and pilot field tests.
2011 to 2014 . Senior Lead Reservoir Engineer, Maersk Oil and Gas
EOR Capability Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. Evaluated gas injection and low salinity EOR opportunities across Maersk.s worldwide portfolio. Continued focus on designing and implementing large scale EOR projects for super-giant Al Shaheen field.
2009 to 2011 - Senior Lead Reservoir Engineer, Maersk Oil and Gas
Qatar Team in in Copenhagen, Denmark working on gas injection and low salinity EOR for the Al Shaheen Field offshore Qatar. Waterflood history match and design, WAG pilot design, tracer studies, black oil and compositional studies.
2007 to 2008 - Senior Advisor, TNK/BP
Evaluated gas injection opportunities for entire TNK/BP Russian portfolio. Identified major EOR opportunities in both Western and Eastern Siberia. Developed extensive laboratory programs for Equation of State (EOS) characterization of key Siberian assets, and designed WAG pilot programs for several fields.
2001 to 2007 - Senior Advisor . Greater Prudhoe Bay, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
Identified, designed, and implemented large scale, innovative advanced oil recovery projects for Prudhoe Bay, Eileen West End, Aurora, Borealis, Orion, Polaris, Northstar, West Sak, Lisburne, and Milne Point fields. Developed curricula and taught the Gas IOR Masterclass for BP. Evaluated BP EOR opportunities and co-owner operated EOR projects in Abu Dhabi, Angola, Azerbaijan, Columbia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.
1982 to 2000 - Advisor - Prudhoe Bay, ARCO Alaska, Inc.
Managed startup and multiple large-scale expansions of the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project (PBMGP), which is the world.s largest enriched gas WAG. Developed several unconventional and very successful EOR concepts for Prudhoe Bay. Won ARCO Corporate Technology award for Alpine Field Plan of Development, which very successfully implemented fieldwide miscible WAG with horizontal wells at field startup. Characterization of huge viscous oil resource on North Slope. Design and implementation of West Sak waterflood pilot.
1980 to 1982 - Staff Member, Technical Engineering Support Group Los Alamos National Laboratories
Projects included pressure vessel design and instrumentation and control systems for a liquid nuclear reactor, development of methane hydrates as an energy resource, and nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.
1978 to 1980 - Engineer - Drilling Technology Group, Sandia National Laboratories
Projects included development of low invasion coring technology, and setup of a drilling fluids laboratory.
1975 to 1978 - Operations/Analytical Engineer - Thermal Recovery Group, ARCO Oil & Gas Co.
Production and facilities engineering for thermal EOR operations of over 500 heavy oil wells in San Joaquin Valley.
EDUCATION
M. S.,
Mechanical Engineering . University of New Mexico 1980
B.S.,
Mechanical Engineering - New Mexico State University 1975
INVENTIONS and TECHNICAL PAPERS
Method and apparatus for recovering unstable cores
United States Patent 4,371,045
McGuire, et. al. Feb. 1, 1983
Method for production of hydrocarbons from hydrates
United States Patent 4,424,866
McGuire Jan. 10, 1984
Method for recovering waterflood residual oil
United States Patent 5,826,656
McGuire, et. al. Oct. 27, 1998
Method for recovering oil from a gravity drainage formation
United States Patent 5,720,350
McGuire Feb. 24, 1998
Hydrocarbon recovery process (Low Salinity EOR)
United States Patent 7,987,907
Collins, Jerauld, Lager, McGuire, Webb: Aug. 2, 2011
Method for Generating Softened Injection Water
United States Patent 8,486,269
McGuire July 16, 2013
Hydrocarbon recovery process (Emulsion EOR)
United States Patent 8,939,211
McGuire, et. al. January 27, 2015
17 Technical papers published
Title: Investigation of Low Invasion Fluids for Pressure Coring
Author: McGuire, P. L., Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
Report Number SAND79-1052C
Presented at the 5th Annual Symposium on Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery and Improved Drilling Technology, Tulsa, Ok, 22-24 August 1979. Published in Proceedings, Vol. 2, page f-5
Title Power-law Rheology and Flow Behavior of Low Invasion Coring Fluids
Author: McGuire, P L., Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Report Number SAND80-0933, RS-8232-2/ 56233, August 1981
Title: Methane Hydrate Gas Production by Thermal Stimulation
Author: McGuire; Patrick L., Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1981
Tech. Rept. No.: LA-UR-81-645; CONF-810317-1
Prepared for: 4th Canadian permafrost conference, 2 Mar 1981, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Title: Methane hydrate gas production: evaluating and exploiting the solid gas resource
Author: McGuire; Patrick L., Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1981
Tech. Rept. No.: LA-UR-81-3461; DE82004373; CONF-811212-3
Prepared for: 4th International Conference on Alternative Energy Sources, 14 Dec 1981, Miami Beach, FL
Title: Methane hydrate gas production: an assessment of conventional production technology as applied to hydrate gas recovery
Author: McGuire; Patrick L., Los Alamos National Laboratory
Published: Nov. 1981.
Tech. Rept. No.: DE82006746; LA-9102-MS
McGuire, P. L., "Recovery of Gas from Hydrate Deposits Using Conventional Technology",
SPE 10832, SPE/DOE Unconventional Gas Recovery Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA. May 16-18, 1982.
McGuire, P. L., and Moritz, A. L., Jr.: "Compositional Simulation and Performance Analysis of the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project",
SPE 20759, 65th SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 23-26, 1990.
McGuire, P. L., and Stalkup, F. I.: "Performance Analysis and Optimization of the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project",
SPE 22398, SPE International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, Beijing, China, March 24-27, 1992.
McGuire, P. L., Spence, A. P., Stalkup, F. I., and Cooley, M. W.: "Core Acquisition and Analysis for Optimization of the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project",
SPE 27759, SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 17-20, 1994.
McGuire, P. L., Redman, R. S., Mathews, W. L., and Carhart, S. R., "Unconventional Miscible EOR Experience at Prudhoe Bay",
SPE 39628, 1998 SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 19.22, 1998.
P. L. McGuire, SPE, ARCO Alaska, Inc.; A. P. Spence, SPE, ARCO Exploration and Production Technology; and R. S. Redman, SPE, ARCO Alaska Inc.
"Performance Evaluation of a Mature Miscible Gas Flood at Prudhoe Bay"
SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 3.5 April 2000.
Unconventional Miscible EOR Experience at Prudhoe Bay: A Project Summary
P.L. McGuire, B.M. Holt, BP, Journal SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
Issue Volume 6, Number 1, February Pages 17-27, 2003, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Viscosity Reduction WAG: An Effective EOR Process for North Slope Viscous Oils
P.L. McGuire, SPE, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.; R.S. Redman, SPE, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.; and B.S. Jhaveri, SPE, K.E. Yancey, SPE, and S.X. Ning, SPE, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., SPE Western Regional Meeting, Mar 30 - Apr 01, 2005, Irvine, California
Low Salinity Oil Recovery: An Exciting New EOR Opportunity for Alaska.s North Slope
P.L. McGuire, SPE, J.R. Chatham, F.K. Paskvan, SPE, D.M. Sommer, SPE, F.H. Carini, SPE, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., SPE Western Regional Meeting, Mar 30 - Apr 01, 2005, Irvine, California
Unconventional EOR Program Increases Recovery in Mature WAG Patterns at Prudhoe Bay
M.P. Rathman, SPE, P.L. McGuire, SPE, and B.H. Carlson, SPE, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, 22-26 April 2006, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA,
From Concept to Pilot to Full-Field Implementation: A New EOR Process for the Prudhoe Bay Field
P. L. McGuire, SPE, BP Alaska, F. H. Carini, SPE, BP Alaska, J. G. Ambrose, SPE, BP Alaska, A. N. Yancey, SPE, BP Alaska, M. N. Panda, SPE, BP Alaska, 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 24.27 September 2006.
Optimized EOR Design for the Eileen West End Area, Greater Prudhoe Bay
Manmath Panda, BP Exploration, James G. Ambrose, BP Alaska Exploration Inc., Gilbert Beuhler, TNK-BP, Patrick L. McGuire, Maersk Olie & Gas AS, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Volume 12, Number 1, February 2009, pp. 25-32.
Distinguished Lecturer for Society of Petroleum Engineers (addressed approximately 30 SPE sections worldwide during 1998-1999 in Mexico, Canada, Europe, India, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific)
Title: Maximizing Recovery and Developing New Opportunities by Understanding Reservoir Management
Plenary Speaker
SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition, Moscow, Russia, 3-6 October 2006
"Prudhoe Bay Field - Cornerstone of Alaska.s North Slope"