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Kai He, Staff Engineer RCT

Since joining ChampionX in 2018 as a Lead Engineer in the Reservoir Chemical Technologies (RCT) team, Kai has been an integral part of the development of new technologies that extend the economic life of reservoirs. Promoted to Staff Engineer in 2022, his current responsibilities include providing technical leadership, driving innovation, and delivering customer-centric support for enhanced oil recovery and well intervention projects.

Through collaboration with multiple teams, Kai has played a critical role in advancing ChampionX’s PROE technology platform, which is an innovative, surfactant-based chemical solution designed to improve well production in both conventional and unconventional assets. PROE has demonstrated exceptional results in the field and works by tailoring chemistry to a reservoir’s specific needs, therefore optimizing the interaction between fluids and reservoir rock to enhance flow efficiency and boosting well productivity, with long-lasting effects.

The development of PROE technology arises from the need for efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions to address the difficulties of improving and maintaining well productivity in tight oil and gas reservoirs. Its applications have since expanded to include enhancing reservoir injectivity, mitigating formation damage, and ultimately prolonging the economic life of reservoirs across various types of reservoir assets.

It’s a development that Kai has been well-qualified to lead. After gaining his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology, he went on to complete his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston, where his research focused on studying the transport of nanomaterials in porous media—knowledge directly relevant to his current work.

Kai’s expertise in his field and his passion for his subject has led to him authoring or co-authoring more than 26 publications in leading industry journals and conference papers, with around a dozen of these relating specifically to surfactant technology. He has also secured more than 16 patents. Kai remains deeply passionate about innovation and solving complex challenges for customers, through the development of cutting-edge technologies that improve operational efficiency, well production, and address sustainability challenges.

Clare Johnston – ChemIndex

 

Learn more about ChampionX’s PROE technology: https://www.championx.com/products-and-solutions/chemical-technologies/well-completion/fracturing/production-enhancement-proe-technology/

Find us at Booth 17 at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference in the Woodlands, Texas, February 4-6, 2025: https://www.spe-events.org/hydraulicfracturing/about-the-conference