About this Course

INTRODUCTION :

Waterflooding:

• Waterflooding is one of the most important methods of improving recovery from oil reservoirs. This section of the course concentrates on reservoir and field operations aspects of water injection for pressure maintenance and secondary recovery.
  
• Participants will study fractional displacement theory and all methods available in the oil & gas industry to predict oil recovery.
  
• The course is a theoretical practical course where participants have to work towards solving a series of projects, and to immediatelyapply the concepts, mathematical principles and theories presented and learned during the course.
  
• Laptop computers will be used to solve problems related to waterflooding.
  

Chemical Flooding:

• Escalating energy demand, declining reserves. Two trillion bbl oil remaining, mostly in depleted reservoirs or those nearing depletion. Infill drilling often meets the well spacing required. Fewer candidate reservoirs for CO2 and miscible. Opportunities exist under current economic conditions. Improved technical knowledge, better risk assessment and implementation techniques.
• Valuable insight has been gained through chemical floods in the past – failures as well as successes.
• MP and ASP methods hold the greatest potential for commercial success; polymer flooding a third option
• Chemical flooding processes must be re-evaluated under the current technical and economic conditions.
• Chemical floods offer the only chance of commercial success in many depleted and waterflooded reservoirs.
• Chemical flooding is here to stay because it holds the key to maximizing the reserves in our known reservoirs

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Reservoir, production, facilities, research and development, and operations engineers who are involved with some aspects of a new or existing waterflood project; geoscientists and professionals who want to get a better feel for the entire process of planning, development, management, and recovery optimization of a waterflood project.

Engineers responsible for sustaining or increasing oil and gas production and enhancing oil recovery from reservoirs under primary depletion, pressure maintenance by water or gas injection, and enhanced oil recovery schemes. Also, other professionals and managers participating in the above effort on a multi-disciplinary team who need to gain better understanding of the concepts, practices, benefits, and limitations of the various conventional and emerging technologies.

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