Course is suitable for reservoir and production engineers, managers, G∓G Staff, and chemical engineers

The course is designed to provide a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals and principles of various enhanced oil recovery processes. A wide variety of topics will be presented including miscible and immiscible gas injection, chemical flood, and thermal flooding. The current status of these technologies is discussed and guidelines are presented for initial screening for each process corresponding to particular field conditions.

• Stages of Oil Recovery
• Screening Criteria
  • Selection of IOR Methods
• Required PVT Data for Improved-Oil-Recovery “IOR” Studies
• QC PVT Data before Use in Modeling
• Factors to Consider When Planning an IOR
• Introduction to Secondary Recovery Methods
• Basic Waterflood Theory
• Sweep Efficiencies
• Role of Mobility Ratio
• Rock Wettability
• Optimum Time to Start an EOR Project
• Controlling Parameters
  • Capillary Number
  • Viscous Fingering
  • Flow regimes
  • Gravity override and Underride
• Improved Water Injection Methods
  • Polymer Food
  • Core Flood
  • Immiscible WAG Flood
• Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
  • Land’s Trapping Coefficient
  • Carlson’s Model
  • Killough’s Model
  • Impact on WAG Flood Recovery
• Miscible WAG Flood
  • Optimum WAG Slug size
  • Estimation of Solvent-Water Ratio
  • WAG Injection in Oil-Wet and Water-Wet Systems
• Multi-Contact Miscible Flood
  • Nitrogen Injection
  • Lean Gas Injection
  • Air Injection in Light Oil Reservoir
  • Miscible WAG Flood
  • CO2 Injection
• First Contact Miscible Flood
  • LPG
  • ASP Flood
  • Buffer Zone Design
  • Micellar Flood
  • Surfactant Flood
• Thermal Recovery Methods
  • Thermal Properties
    • Heat Capacity
    • Steam Quality
    • Enthalpy
    • Thermal Diffusivity
    • Thermal Conductivity
    • Thermal Expansion
  • Steam Injection
    • Steam Flood Performance
  • Huff-n-Puff
  • Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
  • In-situ Combustion