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.