Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals

This course covers the recovery improvement possibilities that present themselves at all stages in the reservoir life cycle.

It thereby enables one to timely select the most beneficial method and set realistic expectations on production behavior changes and recovery improvement.

The impacts of the selected method on personnel training, technology transfer, and facility modification are also covered.

It utilizes case studies from projects around the world, analyses and interpretations aid the participant in understanding of the material.

Develop recovery expectations from reservoirs under primary depletion or pressure maintenance utilizing water or immiscible gas injection.

COURSE CONTENT

• Reservoir life cycle and recovery process.
• Life under primary recovery phase: recovery targets and ways to improve.
• Life under secondary recovery phases: immiscible gas injection, water flooding, recovery targets, ways to improve.
• Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration.
• Miscible methods.
• Chemical methods.
• Thermal methods.
• Technical challenges: current and future R&D directions, facilities modifications and personnel training