This article, written by Senior Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper IPTC 16984, ’Successful Foam-EOR Pilot in a Mature Volatile-Oil Reservoir Under Miscible-Gas Injection,’ by A. Ocampo, A. Restrepo, SPE, H. Cifuentes, SPE, J. Hester, N. Orozco, C. Gil, and E. Castro, Equion Energia, and S. Lopera and C. Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, prepared for the 2013 International Petroleum Technology Conference, Beijing, 26-28 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed. A successful field trial in which foam was used as a gas- injection conformance enhancer was implemented in the Cusiana field in Colombia. An extensive front-end loading (FEL), including chemical-product screening, studying foam stability at reservoir conditions, coreflood experiments, reservoir modeling, and careful selection of well candidates, was executed for this pilot. The treatment was performed in a gas-injection well in the northern part of the field that had already attained a high recovery factor (RF) with high levels of gas recycling. The operation was performed by use of a surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) method. Introduction The Cusiana field is in the foothills of the Eastern Mountain chain in Colombia, and initial production was in 1994. The field comprises three stacked reservoirs (Mirador, Barco, and Guadalupe) and two fluid systems (both volatile oils) with a rich-gas cap at near-critical conditions (pressures and temperatures greater than 5,000 psia and 250°F, respectively). The initial in-place volumes were 1.5 billion STB of oil and more than 3 Tcf of gas, with the Mirador formation containing approximately 60% of the total fluid. Development strategies have included natural depletion, gas recycling, water injection, and gas-injection redistribution. Gas recycling and redistribution provided the best recoveries. The Mirador reservoir is a low- porosity quartzarenite with significant heterogeneities in permeability, both vertically and areally. The reservoir was developed with extensive gas reinjection, beginning in the early days of production with the gas-injection wells updip on the structure. This strategy proved beneficial from the very early stages of gas injection with regard to efficient first-contact miscibility and the favorable location of the injectors. The result has been RFs greater than 50% for most of the Mirador units. After approximately 10 years of gas reinjection, high levels of recycling were observed as a result of reservoir heterogeneities and a less-efficient gas-enrichment process because of the decrease in reservoir pressure below the minimum miscibility pressure. Those conditions led to unrecovered oil in areas that are difficult to access, such as the oil rim between the producers and the aquifer, poor-quality rock layers, and bypassed areas between the producers and injectors.