Course Objectives:

Fundamentals and theory of enhance oil recovery, polymer flooding, surface flooding, miscible
gas flooding and steam flooding. Application of fractional flow theory. Strategies and
displacement performance.

Who Should Attend?

Production Technologists, Engineers, Field Technicians, Reservoir Engineers, etc

Prerequisite Courses

None

Course Overview

General Enhanced Oil Recovery - Reservoir Engineering

Definition of reserves

Environmental and Economics aspects of EOR methods

Displacement fundamentals

Reservoir engineering concepts for EOR

Factors affecting Oil Recovery

Comparative Performance of Different EOR methods

Screening criteria and technical constraints

Definitions of Mobility Ratios, Sweeping Efficiencies, Recovery Efficiencies

Phase behaviour and fluid properties

General Solvent Methods

Phase behaviour fundamentals

Quantative representations of phase equilibria processes

Ternary diagrams to represent Gas Injection processes

Mechanisms of Oil Discplacement, diffusion and dispersion

Hydrocarbon Miscible Displacement: First contact process, Condensing Gas Process

Minimum Miscibility Pressure

Dissipation in Miscible Displacements

Instability Phenomena

Chemical and Polymer Flooding

Fractional flow theory

Dissipation in Immiscible Displacements

Applications of Fractional Flow in Oil Recovery

Improved Waterflooding (Polymer) Processes

Rheology of Polymer solutions

Polymer Adsorbtion and retention

Properties of Surfactants and cosurfactants

Surfactant Brine-Oil phase behaviour

Determination of Residual Oil Saturation

Steam Injection Processes

Cyclic and Continuous steam injection

Thermal properties of Fluids and Solids

Steam properties - Flow Rate and Quality

Temperature Effect on Reservoir and Fluid Properties

Oil Characterisation for Thermal Reservoirs

Evaluation of Heat Losses

Prediction of Steam Flood

Performance: Cyclic Steam, Steamflood Performance

Course Materials

Throughout the training course, all instruction will be enhanced through case studies, DVD and
exercises to demonstrate aspects of the course