Enhanced Oil Recovery


Candidates:

Reservoir, production and petroleum engineers as well as other staff working in a multidisciplinary team who want to gain some familiarity with the terminology, concepts, practices, benefits, and limitations of EOR techniques.

Summary:

This course covers recovery enhancement methods that may be considered during all stages in the reservoir life cycle -primary production, water- flood, and gas injection periods. Example case studies are presented on projects from around the world; these enable participants to under- stand the technical and financial strengths and limitations of the methods.

Contents:

  • Reservoir life cycle
  • Recovery process.
  • Recovery limitations of depletion
  • Pressure maintenance projects
  • Rate/recovery enhancement approaches
  • Modified waterfloods, approaches, designs, pros and cons,
  • EOR (enhanced oil recovery) methods
  • Mechanisms, and limitations of EOR methods
  • Miscible and Thermal methods.
  • Design procedures analog
  • Laboratory tests, field pilots.
  • Facilities modifications and Personnel training
  • Case Studies