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Mikel Morvan is a specialist in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), with research focused on chemical flooding techniques, surfactant science, and integrated laboratory workflows for field-scale pilot design. His work addresses one of the petroleum industry's most pressing challenges: recovering the substantial volumes of oil that remain trapped in reservoirs after primary and secondary production. Morvan's most influential contribution, "A Combinatorial Approach for Identification of Performance EOR Surfactants" (2008, 40 citations), introduced an automated, high-throughput screening methodology for selecting EOR surfactants by leveraging microemulsion phase behavior as a proxy for interfacial tension — significantly accelerating the formulation selection process. Building on this, his integrated workflow publications (2010) provided the industry with systematic frameworks for translating laboratory findings into field pilots, garnering a combined 35 citations. His research extends to complex formulation challenges, including Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer systems evaluated under realistic reservoir conditions such as elevated temperature, pressure, and live oil, as well as foam-assisted EOR pilot design in Malaysian fields. Across these contributions, Morvan's work is distinguished by its practical, field-oriented perspective, bridging fundamental physicochemical science with real-world hydrocarbon recovery applications.