Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Reservoir Engineering
Enhanced Oil Recovery: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
Format and Duration:
4 days
8 sessions
This course provides clear, concise and practical information on reservoir engineering and reflects advances in enhanced oil recovery. The course will help participants understand, simulate and practice the major enhanced oil recovery techniques. Case studies are used to demonstrate a variety of evaluation and predictive techniques using experiment, alanalytical and numerical methods.
Business Impact: Application of the learnings of this course will empower participants to build the fundamental knowledge necessary in developing specialty teams in the company focusing on the application of EOR methods to the company's oil fields.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
This is a classroom or virtual classroom course comprising a mixture of lectures, discussions, case studies, and practical exercises.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Describe the popular EOR methods.
- Identify how to screen a reservoir for EOR.
- Arrange tests to characterize the reservoir prior to injection operations.
- Develop a field-scale EOR project using the existing production wells.
- Manage the injection and production operations and surveillance.
- Address the environmental concerns during the EOR operations.
Course Content
Topic 1
Applied Reservoir Engineering Relevant to EOR
- Oil and gas recovery mechanisms
- Under-saturated oil reservoirs
- Saturated oil reservoirs
- Single-phase fluid flow in reservoirs
- Pressure transient testing
- Decline curve analysis
- Reservoir flow modeling and simulation
Case Studies
- Project 1: Field performance evaluation and forecast using Monte-Carlo simulation
- Project 2: Numerical solution of a one-dimensional single-phase reservoir flow problem
Review of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
- Gas, chemical, microbial, and thermal recovery techniques
- EOR Screening Criteria
Introduction to Oil and Gas DisplacementTheory
- Microscopic displacement efficiency.Iinterfacial and surface tension forces; wettability; capillary pressure; relative permeability characteristics and measurement
- Immiscible displacement processes. Fractional flow equation and frontal advance theory; frontal advance vs. bypass models
- Macroscopic displacement efficiency. Formation heterogeneities and anisotropy; mobility ratio; injection and production well patterns
- Miscible displacement processes. First-contact and multiple-contact (dynamic) miscibility; ternary-diagrams; condensing and vaporizing gas drive processes; miscible fluids and dispersive mixing; viscous fingering: initiation, growth, and modeling
- Emulsions in enhanced oil recovery
Topic 2
Waterflooding Practice
Improved Waterflooding Techniques
- Chemical Injection Methods
- Surfactant
- Polymer & mobility-control
- Alkaline
- Microbial EOR Methods
Case Studies
- Project 3: Waterflooding field study
- Project 4: Polymer or surfactant flooding case study
Topic 3
Miscible Gas Injection Methods
- CO2
- Hydrocarbon (lean gas and enriched gas)
- Inert (nitrogen) gas and air
Thermal Methods, I
- Cyclic steam stimulation
- Steamflooding
Case Study
- Project 5: Five-spot CO2 flooding case study
Topic 4
Thermal Methods, II
- In-situ combustion
- Forward, reverse, wet, and oxygen-enriched
- Diabatic and adiabatic in-situ combustion models
- Role of catalytic agents on in-situ combustion front propagation
Short-distance Oil Displacement (SDOD) Methods
- Steam-assistedgravity drainage, SAGD
- Solvent vapor extraction, VAPEX
- Toe-to-heel air injection, THAI
Case Studies
- Project 6: Five-spot Steamflooding simulation
- Project 7: Ignition/extinction limits of in-situ combustion
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
The course is designed for petroleum engineers and other subsurface proffesionals with reservoir engineering practice.
Instructors
Yucel Akkutlu
Background
Dr. Yucel Akkutlu is Rob L. Adams ’40 Professor in Petroleum Engineering and William Keeler faculty fellow at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He previously worked as a faculty for the University of Oklahoma, USA, and University of Alberta, Canada. He is a chemical engineer and received Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in petroleum reservoir engineering, petrophysics, and physical sciences.
His research focuses on characterization and exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources, enhanced oil recovery, and oilfield chemistry. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, six book chapters, and has four patents. He is the author of “Nano-confined Petroleum Recovery from Source Rocks,” which will be published in 2020. He has received over $3 million in external research funding during the last 10 years from sources such as the US Department of Energy (DOE), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the unconventional oil and gas industry.
He is a distinguished member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was the executive editor of the SPE Journal 2013-2016. He was 2014-15 SPE distinguished lecturer. He received 2020 SPE International Lester C. Uren award, 2017 TAMU-Association of Former Students teaching award, 2016 TAMU-Association of Former Students distinguished achievement award, and 2015 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond memorial award. Akkutlu served in various SPE, EAGE, and NSERC committees.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
MSc University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
BSc Hacettepe University - Chemical Engineering
Courses Taught
N274: Unconventional Resource Engineering for Geoscientists
N279: Geological Characterization and Engineering of Unconventional Oil and Gas Shales: Classroom and Field Seminar (Oklahoma, USA)
N484: Resource Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Plays
N956: Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
N973: Reservoir Engineering for Unconventional Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs
N989: Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs
RM01: Fundamentals of Unconventional Reservoir Engineering for Earth Scientists
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 2.8 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 28 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.