File| EOR/IOR Techniques (Enhanced Oil Recovery)
OBJECTIVES
- Learn about the status of EOR in the U.S.A., Alberta, Venezuela, and other countries, focusing on commercially successful methods.
- Increase knowledge of selected analytical calculation methods and compare them with numerical results.
- Approach project planning and surveillance with an emphasis on practical aspects over academic rigor.
CONTENT
- EOR in the world today: Field projects in Canada and the U.S.A. and the success rate of different methods.
- Principles of oil displacement in porous media, focusing on residual oil displacement and determining residual oil saturation.
- Classification of EOR methods: Field successes and challenges, including unknown factors.
- Miscible displacement: Liquid-liquid miscible displacement, high-pressure gas drives, and water-alternating-gas injection theory.
- Miscible carbon dioxide drive: Theory, laboratory work, and nitrogen drive.
- Chemical flooding: Polymer, surfactant, alkaline floods, micellar flooding, and ASP (Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer) flooding. Field success and future prospects.
- Thermal recovery methods: Basic concepts, reservoir heating, steam injection theory, steamflooding, cyclic steam stimulation, SAGD, and VAPEX.
- In situ combustion theory: Different combustion methods and calculation techniques.
- Numerical simulation status for EOR methods.
- Field design principles and limitations, including the use of horizontal wells.
TARGET AUDIENCE Petroleum engineers, geologists, and professionals with a background in reservoir engineering and oil recovery.
METHODOLOGY Theory and practice, including videos, printed documents, and promoting both individual and group exercises.
MODALITY In-person.
DURATION 40 hours.