Enhanced Oil Recovery
Tentative Outline for a 3-Day Course
Course Objectives:
Review of reservoir engineering fundamentals
Teach principles common to all EOR
Illustrate elementary but practical calculations for EOR
Introduce screening guidelines for EOR
Text: Enhanced Oil Recovery, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1989, plus supplementary materials1.
Materials: Calculator, linear graph paper, straight-edge ruler.
Audience: Engineers with at least a B.S. degree in petroleum or chemical engineering. All
other engineers, mathematicians and physicists with at least a B.S. degree and some experience
in reservoir engineering and/or numerical simulation. Geologists with at least a B.S. degree with
some quantitative experience or interest.
| Day 1 - Review of Fundamentals & Solvent Flooding |
Time, hrs. |
| EOR Overview |
1 |
| Areal sweep efficiency |
1/4 |
| Heterogeneity and vertical sweep |
1/2 |
| Instability phenomena |
1/2 |
| Residual phase saturations |
3/4 |
| Exercise 1 - hand-out |
3/4 |
| Phase behavior |
1 |
| Solvent flooding introduction |
1/2 |
| Solvent flooding classification |
1 |
| Exercise 7A |
3/4 |
| Solvent flooding experiments |
1 |
| Day 2 - Solvent & Chemical Methods |
|
| Review of day 1 |
1/2 |
| Exercise 7B |
3/4 |
| Rich gas drive correlations |
1/4 |
| Exercise - hand-out |
3/4 |
| Viscous fingering and solvent flooding |
1/2 |
| Exercise 7J |
3/4 |
| Trapped oil saturation |
1/2 |
| Field results |
3/4 |
| Polymers and their properties |
3/4 |
| Exercise 8A |
1/2 |
| Profile control and gels (hand-out) |
1/2 |
| Polymer flood design |
1/2 |
| Field results |
1/2 |
| Day 3 - Chemical & Thermal Methods |
|
| Review of day 2 |
1/2 |
| Surfactants |
1/2 |
| Surfactant-brine-oil phase behavior |
3/4 |
| Interfacial tension |
1/2 |
| Alkaline flooding |
3/4 |
| Foam flooding |
3/4 |
| Process types |
1/2 |
| Physical properties |
1/2 |
| Hot water fractional flow |
1/2 |
| Heat losses from equipment and wellbores |
1/2 |
| Heat losses from formation |
3/4 |
| Exercise 11G |
3/4 |
| Course wrap-up |
1/2 |
Material supplied by instructor
