This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
Petroleum, Production & Reservoir Engineers
Processing engineers & other discipline engineers
Geologists & Petro physicists
Engineers who are new to the profession
Other individuals who need to know about EOR technologies
Duration
5 Days
Programme Overview
The increasing gap between discovering giant oil fields and world oil demand creates a very good opportunity for more applications of enhanced oil techniques in mature oil fields. This dynamic training course teaches an integrated approach of water flooding and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), It explains the connection of each process to the reservoir principles to the results of cases from the field and covers the specifics of chemical, miscible and thermal EOR processes.
The training course is designed to provide attendants with a solid understanding of different design aspects, types, screening criteria, and field application of current and advanced types of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. Today, it is better to apply EOR in a secondary mode. This training course presents the basics, applications, problems, uncertainties and field development of each EOR method. Reservoir characterization techniques required for EOR will be explained and compared. Detailed EOR methods will be covered with many actual field cases worldwide will be presented and discussed. The course is designed as an interactive learning environment of lecturing, industry videos, and screening field cases.
This training course will feature:
Rock and fluid properties for better reservoir characterization
How to screen the actual reservoir to select the suitable EOR method
Different types, sub-types, and results of EOR field cases (chemical, miscible, and thermal)
Required data, lab design approach, and analysis of different EOR methods
Current industry simulators and new advancements of EOR methods
Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
Describe and apply different EOR processes
Reservoir characterization and screening actual fields for EOR methods
How to maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio and Capillary Number
Chemical EOR: polymer, alkaline-polymer, and alkaline/surfactant/polymer
Miscible and thermal EOR techniques and new advancements in EOR techniques
Course Outline
Day One: Different EOR Processes and Screening Criteria
Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
Reservoir concepts, RCAL, SCAL and fluid properties for EOR
Screening criteria and mechanisms of different EOR methods
How to maximize oil recovery using mobility ratio and capillary number
Limitations, challenges, uncertainties and problems of different EOR methods
Day Two: Reservoir Fluid Properties and Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir concepts, main rock and fluid properties for EOR
Routine and Special Core Analysis (RCAL & SCAL)
Five different reservoir fluids and downhole sampling tools
Detailed reservoir fluid study (five tests)
Different tools for downhole fluid sampling
Advanced reservoir characterization techniques for EOR methods
Day Three: Water flooding and Different Chemical EOR Processes
Waterflooding: design requirement, frontal displacement theory
Classification and screening of different chemical EOR methods
Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties, and degradation
Alkaline/polymer (AP) and ASP flooding: process and limitations
Three actual field results: Daqing (China), Kentucky (USA), Norne Field (Norway)
Day Four: Miscible and Immiscible EOR processes
Miscible gas EOR: CO2 and Nitrogen injection methods
Determination of minimum miscibility pressure (MMP)
Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding processes
Carbon dioxide field selection and screening application
Current industry simulators for CO2 process
Day Five: Thermal and the EOR processes
Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam injection.
Industry simulators for steam EOR methods
Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
In- situ combustion method: wet and dry applications
Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and CAPRI processes
Microbial EOR, Enzyme EOR, and Low Salinity Water (LSW)
