Enhanced Oil Recovery Course

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Who should attend?

Reservoir engineers, production engineers and geoscientists interested in EOR or involved in EOR projects either from a planning or operational perspective.

Learning objectives

Predict incremental oil recovery and develop production profile using required data and its sources

  • Specify components of a well-designed water flood plan
  • Estimate injection water requirement, incremental oil  production, and volumes of produced water during applying chemical EOR methods
  • Understand the thermal processes to enhance the oil recovery
  • Use reservoir simulation to address basic recovery mechanisms and optimization.

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Improved oil recovery methods (IOR)
  • Comparative performance of different EOR methods
  • Screening criteria and technical constraints

Miscible flooding

  • Fundamentals and applications
  • Phase behavior and fluid properties
  • General overview of solvent methods
  • Carbon dioxide flooding
  • Case studies

Polymer and Surfactant flooding

  • Rheology of polymer solutions.
  • Polymer adsorption and retention.
  • Micellar-polymer.
  • Micro emulsion flooding.
  • Comparison with water flooding; performance evaluation.
  • Surfactant Flooding.
  • Field cases and  exercises

Thermal processes

  • Steam injection processes
  • Cyclic and continuous steam injection
  • Surface facilities
  • Steam flood performance
  • Field wide forecast
  • Performance evaluation – field cases.

Workshop

  • Simulation models as reservoir management tools;
  • EOR project development and economic analysis
  • Case studies.

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