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Founder of Heretech Subodh Gupta has widely published on various petroleum industry related sub-surface and surface technologies aimed at decarbonization. This includes enhanced and thermal oil recovery including solvent aided process, and numerical methods of simulation, as well as novel carbon abatement approaches. With over 50 publications and 30 patents to his name, you can be sure to get the benefit of an experience that has seen and managed thorough a lot of changes in the oil industry over time. The following lists a few selected papers and invited talks.

SAGD, and its solvents / chemical-based enhancements

  • Gupta, S.C., Gittins, S. D., Oskouei, J., Quiroga, S., Christiensen, J., The Myth of Residual Oil Saturation in SAGD – Simulations Against Reality, SPE-199927-MS, submitted to be presented in SPE Canada Heavy Oil Conference, 18-19 March 2020, Calgary
  • Sood, A., & Gupta, S. (2018, March 13). Hydrocarbon Recovery Using a Convective Solvent Extraction Process. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/189776-MS
  • Sood, A., and Gupta, S. (2018, March 13). Cold Solvent Process for Heavy Oil Recovery. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/189767-MS
  • Sood, A., and Gupta, S. (2018, March 13). Solvent Process for Reservoirs with Top Water. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/189723-MS
  • Holmes, M., & Gupta, S. (2016, June 7). Novel Scheme to Enhance Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Production. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/180692-MS
  • Holmes, M., Gupta, S., McKay, P., & Ren, S. (2016, June 7). Integrated One-Step Process for Oil Water Separation and Produced-Water Treatment. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/180691-MS
  • Gupta, S., and Gittins, S., Benzvi, A., and Dragani, J., Feasibility of Wider Well Spacing With Solvent Aided Process: A Field Test Based Investigation, SPE Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Canada, June 9-11, 2015.
  • Zeidani, K. and Gupta, S.C. 2013.” Surfactant-Steam Process: An Innovative Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery Method for Thermal Applications” Presented at SPE Heavy Oil Conference-Canada, 11-13 June, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2013
  • Gupta, S., and Gittins, An Investigation into Optimal Solvent Use and the Nature of Vapor-Liquid Interface in Solvent Aided SAGD Process with a Semi-analytical Approach, SPEJ, pp 1255-1264, December 2012.
  • Gupta, S., and Gittins, S., and Canas, C., Methodology for Estimating Recovered Solvent in Solvent Aided Process, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, pp. 339-350, September 2012
  • Gittins, S., Gupta, S., Zaman, M., Simulation Of Non-condensable Gases in SAGD Steam Chambers, CSUG/SPE SPE-149503-PP, Calgary, Canada, November 15–17, 2011
  • Zeidani, K. and Gupta, S.C. “Hydrocarbon Recovery from Bituminous Sands with Injection of Surfactant Vapour” US Application 2013/0081,808, Assignee: Cenovus Energy, 2011.
  • Gupta, S. C., & Gittins, S. (2010, January 1). Measurement of Recovered Solvent in Solvent Aided Process. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/136402-MS
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., Sood, A., Zeidani, K., Optimal Amount of Solvent in Solvent Aided Process, paper # 137543, Canadian Unconventional Resources & International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 19–21 October 2010.
  • Bennion, D.B., Gupta, S., Gittins, S., Hollies, D., Protocols for Slotted Liner Design for Optimum SAGDOperation, paper # 2008-100, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, 17th-19th June Calgary 2008

  • Gupta, S., ‘EnCana’s Solvent Aided Process Development’, Artificial Lift and LP-SAGD Technical Committee Workshop: Advancing solvent/co-injection recovery applications, Calgary, AB., September 27th, 2007
  • Gupta, S., Solvent Aided Process – An enhancement of SAGD, Brazil Onshore Conference and Exhibition, Natal, November 27th-30th, 2006
  • Gupta, S., and Gittins, S., Christina Lake Solvent Aided Process Pilot, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 45(9), pp. 15-18, September 2006
  • Gupta, S., and Gittins, S., Effect of Solvent Sequencing and Other Enhancements on Solvent Aided Process, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 13-15, 2006
  • Gupta, S. C. (2005, January 1). Unlocking the Planet’s Heavy Oil and Bitumen Resources – A Look at SAGD. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Field Implementation of Solvent Aided Process, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 44(11), pp. 8-13, November 2005
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Insights into some key issues with Solvent Aided Process, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 43(2), pp. 54-61, February 2004.
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Field Implementation of Solvent Aided Process, Paper No. 2002-299, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 11-13, 2002
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Solvent Aided Process – A Field Application, CHOA-CIM Slugging It Out Conference, April 8th, 2002
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Insights into some key issues with Solvent Aided Process, Paper No. 2000-126, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 12-14, 2001
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., and Picherack, P., Improvement over SAGD – What role can solvents play?, B&C session, Canadian  Heavy Oil Association, Calgary, Alberta, February 22, 2001

Alternate methods of carbon abatement

  • Gupta, S. C. (2019, September 23). Promising Pathways to Lower Atmospheric Carbon Without Sacrificing the Petroleum Advantage. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/196109-MS
  • Ameur, Z. O., Gupta, S., & Siegler, H. D. L. H. (2016, June 7). Approaches for CO2 Capture and Sequestration Inspired by Biological Systems. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/180718-MS
  • Gupta, S. C., Struyk, A., & Gilbert, D. (2011, December 1). Carbon Sequestration from Waste Through Conversion to Charcoal: Equipment for a Small-Scale Operation. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/136887-PA
  • Gupta, S., Gilbert, D., Struyk, A., 2010, Carbon Sequestration from Waste via Conversion to Charcoal Equipment for a Small-Scale Operation, SPE-136887, CSUG-SPE CURIP Conference, Calgary, Alberta, October 19-21.
  • Gupta, S., 2010, A Practical Way Out of the GHG Emissions Problem, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, August, pp 33-42, 49(8)
  • Subodh Gupta, Charcoal Sequestration as an Alternate Approach to Carbon Abatement – Working with Nature, An invited talk at the CI- 4th Annual CCS Conference| Calgary | January 27th, 2010

  • Gupta, S. 2009, Are there Less Costly Ways to Sequester Carbon than CCS?, SPE-123864 presented at the SPE Annual Technical conference and Exhibition held in New Orleans, LA, U.S.A, October 4-7.
  • Gupta, S., Carbon Capture from Thin Air, An invited talk, Global Petroleum Conference, 9th – 11th June, Calgary 2009
  • Gupta, S., Carbon harvesting for saving the planet, paper # 2008-020, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, 17th-19th June Calgary 2008
  • Gupta, S., What Are Our Options for Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2–Some Thoughts, SPE paper # 109815, SPE ATCE, Anaheim, CA, 14-16 November 2007

Novel approaches to reduce energy intensity

  • Three-Dimensional Inverse Opal TiO2 Coatings to Enable the Gliding of Viscous Oils Lacey D. Douglas, Thomas E. O’Loughlin, Cody J. Chalker, Nicholas Cool, Subodh Gupta, James D. Batteas, and Sarbajit Banerjee, Energy & Fuels 2020 34 (11), 13606-13613 DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02031
  • Hierarchically Textured Oleophobic Internal Coatings that Facilitate Drag Reduction of Viscous Oils in Macroscopic Laminar Flow, Nicholas Cool, Lacey Douglas, Subodh Gupta, Sarbajit Banerjee, Advanced Engineering Materials, 13 May 2020, Doi:10.1002/adem.202000333
  • An evaluation of the reduction of heat loss enabled by halloysite modification of oilwell cement, Udayakantha, Malsha, Cho, Junsang, Liu, Kai-Wei, Mukhopadhyay, Anol, Gupta, Subodh, Hong, Claire Y., Banerjee, Sarbajit, Engineering Research Express, Volume 1, Issue 2, id.025028, December 2019, DOI: 10.1088/2631-8695/ab5207 
  • Malsha Udayakantha, Junsang Cho, Kai-Wei Liu3, Anol Mukhopadhyay, Subodh Gupta, Claire Y Hong and Sarbajit Banerjee, An evaluation of the reduction of heat loss enabled by halloysite modification of oilwell cement, Eng. Res. Express 1 025028, December 2019
  • Thomas E. O’Loughlin, Robert V. Dennis, Nathan A. Fleer, Theodore E. G. Alivio, Stephanie Ruus, Jennifer Wood, Subodh Gupta, Sarbajit Banerjee, Biomimetic Plastronic Surfaces for Handling of Viscous Oil. Energy & Fuels 2017, 31, 9337-9344.

Reservoir modeling and simulation

  • Gupta, Subodh. “Technology Focus: EOR Modeling (January 2021).” J Pet Technol 73 (2021):43.
  • Gupta, Subodh. “Technology Focus: EOR Modeling (January 2020).” J Pet Technol 72 (2020): 48. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/0120-0048-JPT
  • Gupta, S., Gittins, S., Analytical model of SAGD for a quick field-wide performance forecast, 65th Annual Technical Conference of Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers, Calgary, October 5-7, 2015
  • Gupta, S., and Edmunds, N., Performance Enhancement of Reservoir Simulation by Dynamic Natural Alignment of variables, Paper No. 98-30, 49th Annual technical Meeting of Petroleum Society of CIM, Calgary, Alberta, June 8 – 12, 1998

  • Gupta, S. C., Moore, R.G., and C. Laureshen, Modelling of Flow of Fluid Mixtures Through Porous Media Involving Condensation-Evaporation and Adsorption-Desorption, 44th Can. Chem. Eng. Conf., Calgary, Alberta, October 2-5, 1994
  • Gupta, S. C., Belgrave, J.D.M., and Moore, R.G., Effect of Horizontal and Vertical Planar Fractures on the Sweep Efficiency of a Gas Flood, 11th SPE Technical Conference, Trinidad and Tobago Section, June 1993
  • Gupta, S. C., Belgrave, J.D.M., and Moore, R.G., The Effect of Local Grid Refinement on Mass Flux Distribution in Finite-Difference Numerical Simulation, CSChE Annual Student Conference, Montreal, Quebec, February 1992
  • Gupta, S. C., Moore, R.G., and Belgrave, J.D.M., Factors Influencing Natural Convection and its Relevance to In Situ Combustion, AIChE Annual Technical Meeting, Chicago, IL., November 11-16, 1990. Published in the Symposium Series of AIChE 280, Vol. 87, 1991
  • Moore, R.G., Bennion, D.W., Gupta, S.C., Laureshen, C.J., Mehta, S.A., Okazawa, N., Ursenbach, M.G., and Xi, K., AOSTRA Final Report for Project 637, Period from January to June 1990
  • Gupta, S.C., Moore, R.G., and Belgrave, J.D.M., Natural Convection and its importance to In Situ Combustion, Joint 73rd Can. Chem. Conf./40th Can. Chem. Eng. Conf., Halifax, Canada, July 15-20, 1990

Presentations on technology, collaboration, and the industry

  • Gupta, S., The Lure and the Challenge of the Oilsands – a look beyond SAGD, AAPG Hedberg Conference (Keynote Speech), Banff, Alberta, Sep. 30th – Oct. 3rd, 2007
  • Gupta, S., “Oilsands Development: What difference will the Technology Make”, 2008, An invited talk, Global Petroleum Show, Calgary, June 11-13
  • Gupta, S., Unlocking the Planet’s Heavy-Oil and Bitumen Resources – A Look at Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), www.spe.org, 2004-2005 Distinguished Lecturer Presentations
  • Gupta, S., How will we get out of this pit’, CHOA-SPE Slugging it Out Conference, Calgary, April 18th, 2017
  • Gupta, S., ‘Innovation for a Robust Future in Oil Sands’, PTAC Oil Sands Forum – Building on Technology Momentum, Calgary, October 2014
  • Gupta, S., ‘Evolving oil sands story: the good news part’, Fall CHOA Conference, Calgary, October 2013
  • Gupta, S., ‘Application of Genomics to Hydrocarbon Resource Development’, Panel discussion, Calgary, February 2012

Articles based on Gupta’s papers and presentations:

  • Carpenter, C. (2017, July 1). Approaches for CO2 Capture and Sequestration Inspired by Biological Systems. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/0717-0085-JPT
  • Rassenfoss, S. (2012, June 1). A Tricky Tradeoff – Can Adding a Little Solvent Yield a Lot More Heavy Crude? Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/0612-0058-JPT
  • Leah Miller Guindon, Investigating Well Spacing and the Solvent-Aided Process from Gupta, Gittins, Benzvi, and Dragani, JCPT Tech Briefs, JCPT, September, pp 277-279, 2015