Brigitte Bazin

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Brigitte Bazin is a distinguished petroleum engineer and researcher specializing in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), with a particular focus on chemical flooding techniques including surfactant, alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP), and surfactant-polymer (SP) formulations. Her work addresses one of the oil industry's most persistent challenges: recovering the more than half of original oil that typically remains trapped in reservoirs after primary and secondary production phases. Bazin's most significant contributions lie in developing systematic methodologies for chemical EOR pilot design. Her 2011 paper on advanced surfactant-based pilot design methodology (13 citations) established rigorous frameworks for screening and optimizing formulations, while her 2010 integrated workflow study provided practitioners with structured approaches to field-scale implementation. Perhaps most notably, her 2014 research (12 citations) broke new ground by evaluating ASP/SP formulations under realistic live oil conditions, accounting for the complex interplay of temperature, pressure, and dissolved gas on recovery performance — variables frequently oversimplified in laboratory studies. Her body of work bridges laboratory formulation science and field application, offering researchers and engineers practical tools for translating chemical EOR concepts into viable pilot projects. Bazin's research remains an important reference for professionals seeking to maximize hydrocarbon recovery from mature reservoirs.