Oil Enhancement Processes: Chemical Flooding
Main Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods include chemical, thermal, and miscible processes. Chemical EOR processes have been applied successfully worldwide. This course is designed to provide key aspects of chemical methods plus process limitations. The course covers all chemical methods of polymer, surfactant/polymer, alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP) methods plus microemulsion and other chemical techniques. The course also presents technical backgrounds, current status, and future of chemical EOR techniques with field case studies worldwide to screen technical strengths and limitations of these methods. Participants will also learn recent developments and/or chemical advancements that make chemical EOR methods attractive.
- Why do we need EOR?
- Differences and similarities between EOR and IOR
- Classifications and definitions of EOR methods
- Types of EOR methods and possible enhancement approaches
- Screening criteria for EOR techniques in comparison to chemical ones
- Phase behavior and important rock and fluid properties for chemical methods
- Displacement, vertical, and volumetric efficiencies and how to improve
- Environmental constraints for EOR methods
- Main reservoir concepts for EOR methods
- Main fluid properties for EOR methods
- Polymer types, mobility, properties, calculating polymer injectivity and mechanical degradation, fractional flow of polymer, and elements of designing the flood
- Case studies of chemical EOR screening, pilot and full field implementation experiences
- Surfactant-polymer flooding: key aspects, surfactant-brine-oil phase behavior, and performance prediction
- Micellar-polymer (MP) flooding: MP process, high capillary number, designing, non-ideal effects, and how to make a simplified recovery prediction
- Alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) process: advantages and limitations
- Other chemical EOR methods: foam flooding, microemulsion, and others
- Limitations and proposed solutions for chemical EOR methods
- Current and selection of reservoir simulator for different EOR
- Analysis of results of some field cases
- Future of chemical EOR methods
- Classify and define different EOR methods
- Define and calculate different rock and fluid properties for EOR
- Screen actual reservoir(s) to select the best EOR method for your reservoir
- Maximize oil recovery by chemical EOR methods
- Screen and apply polymer, alkaline/polymer (AP), and alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP) methods
- Know new advancements in all chemical EOR methods
- Select the best reservoir simulator for selected EOR process
- Know the future of different chemical EOR processes
Who Should Attend
Reservoir and petroleum engineers, geologists, petrophyicists, workover and production engineers, researchers and/scientists, and others interested in EOR processes.
Why You Should Attend
SPE serves petroleum engineers worldwide to improve their scientific and experience skills. This course provides you with both theoretical studies and field cases, which will help you to gain an academic background plus applications and screening of actual field case studies from Middle Eastern oil fields.
2.4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded for this 3-day course.
Shedid A. Shedid, professor, is currently a certified instructor and a technical consultant at SPE and NExT-Schlumberger, Houston, Texas, USA.
Shedid received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma in petroleum engineering. He conducted several technical consultation and research projects of petroleum engineering in the USA, Australia, Egypt, Libya, and UAE. He also published more than 73 scientific papers about development of new techniques/models for solving real industry problems. Shedid supervised and examined several master and doctorate dissertations in petroleum engineering in different countries. He worked at Texas A& M University, University of Western Australia (UWA), UAE University, and British University in Egypt (BUE).
Shedid developed and taught several industry short courses over analytical and applied reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and water flooding management in the different countries of Egypt, UAE, Algeria, USA, Australia, Malaysia, Kuwait, Libya, and Vietnam.
- Analytical and applied reservoir engineering
- Design, analysis, and application of water flooding
- Design, screening, and application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes