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SFE57 Select and Evaluate Proper Enhanced Oil Recovery Field

Duration: 2 Weeks

 

Course Objectives:

Fundamentals and theory of enhance oil recovery, polymer flooding, surface flooding, miscible gas flooding and steam flooding. Application of fractional flow theory. Strategies and displacement performance.

Who Should Attend

Production Technologists, Engineers, Field Technicians, Reservoir Engineers, etc.

Course Overview

- General Enhanced Oil Recovery - Reservoir Engineering
- Definition of reserves
- Environmental and Economics aspects of EOR methods
- Displacement fundamentals
- Reservoir engineering concepts for EOR
- Factors affecting Oil Recovery
- Comparative Performance of Different EOR methods
- Screening criteria and technical constraints
- Definitions of Mobility Ratios, Sweeping Efficiencies, Recovery Efficiencies,
- Phase behavior and fluid properties
- General Solvent Methods
- Phase behavior fundamentals
- Quantative representations of phase equilibria processes
- Ternary diagrams to represent Gas Injection processes
- Mechanisms of Oil Displacement, diffusion and dispersion
- Hydrocarbon Miscible Displacement: First contact process, Condensing Gas Process
- Minimum Miscibility Pressure
- Dissipation in Miscible Displacements
- Instability Phenomena
- Chemical and Polymer Flooding
- Fractional flow theory
- Dissipation in Immiscible Displacements
- Applications of Fractional Flow in Oil Recovery
- Improved Water flooding (Polymer) Processes
- Rheology of Polymer solutions
- Polymer Adsorption and retention
- Properties of Surfactants and cosurfactants
- Surfactant Brine-Oil phase behavior
- Determination of Residual Oil Saturation
- Steam Injection Processes0Cyclic and Continuous steam injection
- Thermal properties of Fluids and Solids
- Steam properties - Flow Rate and Quality
- Temperature Effect on Reservoir and Fluid Properties
- Oil Characterization for Thermal Reservoirs
- Evaluation of Heat Losses
- Prediction of Steam Flood Performance: Cyclic Steam, Steam flood Performance


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