Reservoir || Advanced EOR/IOR Technology

Here you can learn about the advanced EOR/IOR technology

Course Description

This course covers the fundamental principles of reservoir engineering and various enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, including miscible gas injection, water-alternating-gas (WAG), chemical flooding, and thermal recovery techniques.

Audience

This course is intended for reservoir and petroleum engineers, production engineers, geologists, petrophysicists, workover engineers, senior petroleum engineering students, and others interested in learning about EOR processes.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of reservoir engineering and petroleum production concepts is recommended.

Course Content

Introduction to EOR

• Well vertical flow performance and reservoir rock properties.

• In-depth study of fluid properties.

• Secondary recovery methods.

• Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods.

• Determining the optimal time to start an EOR project.

• Advanced water injection techniques.

• Enhanced miscible gas injection methods.

• Polymer flooding.

• Ternary diagrams.

• Slim tube and swelling tests.

• CO2 injection for enhanced recovery.

• WAG (Water-Alternating-Gas) flooding.

• Determining the optimal size for a WAG flood.

• Field experiences and case studies.

• Equations of state (EOS).

• Tuning EOS for compositional modeling applications.

• First-contact miscible flooding.

• Compositional modeling techniques.

• Multi-contact miscible flooding.

• Nitrogen (N2) injection.

• Air injection in light oil reservoirs.

• ASP (Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer) flooding.

• Micellar flooding.

Field Development

• Thermal recovery methods.

• Steam injection techniques.

• Huff-n-puff recovery.

• Fire flooding methods.

• SAGD (Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage) flooding.

• Field development strategy and planning.

• Identifying optimal drilling locations.

• Volumetric efficiency in recovery processes.

• Conformance issues in EOR.

• Pilot testing for EOR techniques.

Field Management

• Latest developments in EOR/IOR (Improved Oil Recovery).

• Emerging technologies in EOR.

• Reservoir modeling techniques.