Fanny Oukhemanou

Solvay (United States), Solvay (Belgium)

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Fanny Oukhemanou is a specialist in chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR), with a focused expertise in alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) and surfactant-polymer (SP) flooding technologies. Her research addresses the critical challenge of optimizing surfactant formulations for improved oil recovery under realistic reservoir conditions. In her highly cited 2014 study, Oukhemanou systematically evaluated ASP/SP formulations in live oil conditions, demonstrating how temperature, pressure, and gas presence significantly impact oil recovery performance—a crucial insight for field applications. This work, accumulating 12 citations, provides a rigorous framework for formulation testing that bridges laboratory screening and reservoir-scale deployment. Her 2013 contribution introduced an innovative quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) method for surfactant selection, offering a predictive tool that dramatically reduces the time and cost of traditional trial-and-error screening. By applying computational chemistry to EOR, Oukhemanou advanced the field toward more efficient, data-driven surfactant design. Her work is particularly valuable for researchers and engineers seeking to optimize chemical EOR processes, as it combines fundamental phase behavior studies with practical, field-relevant performance metrics.