Paola Leon
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Biography
Paola Leon is a Petroleum engineer and Master of science in hydrocarbons engineering with experience in reservoir engineering, EOR, numerical reservoir simulation, laboratory equipment operation and research. She has been involved in the Recobro Mejorado research group from the Universidad Industrial de Santander for more than six years. She has worked in topics like the effect of catalytic aquathermolysis on the enhanced recovery of heavy oils during steamflooding processes, economic evaluation of enhanced oil recovery projects, steamflooding in medium and light oil fields, the effect of the viscosity variation of heavy oil on the injection rate in steam injection processs, and the use of analytical characterization techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance