Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques

Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques

OBJECTIVES

• Describe different chemical, miscible, and thermal EOR processes
• Maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio and Capillary Number
• Apply reservoir characterization and screening actual fields for EOR
• Understand chemical, miscible, thermal, and hybrid EOR techniques
• Understand newly-developed EOR methods and compare with current ones

WHO SHOULD ATTEND ?

• Petroleum, Production & Reservoir Engineers
• Processing engineers & other discipline engineers
• Engineers who are new to the profession
• Other individuals who need to know about EOR technologies

COURSE OUTLINE

Day One: Different EOR Processes and Screening Criteria

• Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
• Reservoir concepts, rock and fluid properties for EOR
• Screening criteria and mechanisms of different EOR methods
• Maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio and Capillary Number
• Limitations, challenges and problems of different EOR methods

Day Two: Reservoir Fluid Properties and Reservoir Characterization

• Reservoir concepts, main rock and fluid properties for EOR
• Advanced reservoir characterization techniques for EOR methods
• Water flooding: design requirement, limitations, and displacement theory
• Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties, and types of degradation
• Polymer flooding: mobility ratio (M), slug design, and field application

Day Three: Current Chemical and Miscible EOR Techniques

• Alkaline/polymer and ASP flooding: process and limitations
• Two actual field results: Daqing (China) and Kentucky (USA)
• Miscible gas EOR: CO2, HC, and Nitrogen injection methods;
• Lab and numerical determination of minimum miscibility pressure
• Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding processes

Day Four: Current and Advanced Thermal EOR Processes

• Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam injection
• Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
• In- situ combustion methods: forward and backward
• Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and CAPRI processes
• Steam-CO2 hybrid EOR technique and field application

Day Five: Other Advanced EOR Processes

• Microbial (MEOR) and Enzymes (EEOR) processes
• Low Salinity Water (LSW) and pulsed water processes
• Seismic, Electric, and Electromagnetic heating EOR methods
• Hybrid EOR applications; CO2-thermal and chemical-thermal methods