A Comprehensive and Applied Course in Enhanced Oil Recovery (RE07)

• Introduction to EOR
  -  EOR methods (description, classification and status), EOR reserves
  -  Screening criteria
  -  Environmental aspects of EOR methods
  
• Microscopic fluid displacement in reservoir
  -  Displacement forces in the reservoir
  -  Capillary, viscous and gravitational forces
  -  Factors affecting phase trapping
  -  Mobilization and displacement of trapped phases
  
• Macroscopic fluid displacement in reservoir
  -  Reservoir fluid PVT properties; rock properties
  -  Material balance
  -  Mobility ratio
  -  Displacement efficiency – Buckley-Leverett theory and Welge method
  -  Areal and vertical sweep efficiencies; oil recovery efficiency
  
• Miscible displacement  
  -  Miscible displacement
  -  Phase behavior during miscible displacement
  -  First-contact miscible (FCM) process; multiple-contact miscible (MCM) process
  -  Process description using ternary diagrams
  -  Minimum miscibility pressure or enrichment in MCM process
  -  Selection criteria and design procedures
  
• Chemical flooding
  -  Micellar/polymer flood, Surfactant flood
  -  Factors affecting phase behavior and IFT
  -  Displacement mechanisms under chemical flood
  -  Analytical model of chemical flood
  -  Selection criteria and design procedures
  
• Thermal oil recovery
  -  Thermal EOR processes
  -  Effect of temperature on oil viscosity, reservoir fluid and rock properties
  -  Steam properties and steam generation
  -  Heat losses from surface steam injection lines
  -  Wellbore heat loss
  -  Cyclic steam injection – Boberg-Lantz model
  -  Selection criteria and design procedures
  -  Steamflood – Marx-Langenheim, Jones model and Suandy-Mamora model
  -  Insitu-combustion:  Nelson and McNeil model
  -  Selection criteria and design procedures