OG90
Course Contents
Module 1 - Introduction and Screening Criteria for the EOR Processes (Rock and Fluid Properties)
Key Topics
- Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
- Reservoir concepts, rock and fluid properties for EOR
- Types of Reservoir Energy: Producing Mechanisms
- Screening criteria and mechanisms of different EOR methods
Module 2 - Secondary Recovery Projects (Water flooding Technique)
Key Topics
- Reserve Estimation and Classification
- Maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio and Capillary Number
- Reservoir Types and Reservoir Management
- Secondary Recovery and Pressure Maintenance
- Microscopic Efficiency of Immiscible Displacement
- Macroscopic Displacement Efficiency of a Linear Water flood
- Immiscible Displacement in Two Dimensions-Areal
- Water flooding: design requirement, limitations, and displacement theory
- Vertical Displacement in Linear and Areal Models
- Water flood Design
- Water flood Monitoring
- Water flood Field-Case-Studies Examples
Module 3 - Current and Advanced Chemical EOR Techniques
Key Topics
- Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties, and types of degradation
- Polymer flooding: mobility ratio (M), slug design, and field application
- Alkaline processes
- Surfactant processes
Module 4 - Current and Advanced Miscible EOR Techniques
Key Topics
- Alkaline/polymer and ASP flooding: process and limitations
- Miscible Recovery Processes
- Miscible gas EOR: CO2, HC, and Nitrogen injection methods;
- Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding processes
- Microbial (MEOR) processes
Module 5 - Current and Advanced Thermal EOR Processes
Key Topics
- Thermal Recovery Techniques
- Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam injection
- Cyclic Steam Stimulation: Design Considerations and Process Optimization
- Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
- In- situ combustion methods: forward and backward
- Limitations, challenges and problems of different EOR methods
- Field Examples and Case Histories