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D. Rousseau is a petroleum engineer and researcher specializing in chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR), with a particular focus on developing surfactant-polymer flooding techniques for challenging reservoir conditions. Their work addresses a critical gap in the industry: recovering heavy oil from thin reservoirs where conventional thermal methods like Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) are simply not viable. Rousseau's most influential contribution, "Alkaline-Free Surfactant Polymer Process for Heavy Oil" (2014, 20 citations), helped establish chemical EOR as a credible alternative for heavy oil recovery, demonstrating that carefully engineered surfactant-polymer combinations could achieve meaningful displacement efficiency without alkaline additives. Complementary research published the same year broadened understanding of how these chemical processes behave across different heavy oil systems. Beyond heavy oil, Rousseau has extended this expertise to harsh carbonate reservoirs — notoriously difficult environments for chemical flooding due to high salinity, temperature, and mineralogy — developing rigorous, all-inclusive laboratory workflows to guide formulation design from screening through field-ready solutions. Their field-oriented study from Oman further demonstrates a commitment to translating laboratory findings into real-world applications. Collectively, Rousseau's work provides both foundational science and practical methodology for engineers tackling some of the industry's most complex EOR challenges.