Biographical sketch

Alex Turta was a research engineer at the Alberta Research Council (ARC), which became Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and then Innotech Alberta. He worked at ARC for more than 25 years, until 2014, when he became the president of his own company A T EOR Consultancy Inc. He is a reservoir engineer with a Ph.D. in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

Alex was involved in the design of several projects of miscible CO2 flooding for light oils and in the monitoring/evaluation of an immiscible CO2 injection project in an intermediate viscosity oil field. He was instrumental in the selection of the 71 prospective Alberta oil reservoirs for CO2‐EOR and CO2 storage, using an in‐house ARC software (PRIze and/or SelectEOR). In the period 2005‐2009, he was the project leader of the 5‐year project on flue gas and CO2‐Enhanced Gas Recovery (CO2‐EGR) and CO2 storage in the gas pools. Recently, he cooperated in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Romania.

Outline of a one-day CO2 course

  1. Introduction: EOR activity and fundamental aspects of miscible flooding, mainly for CO2 flooding
  2. Introduction: Mechanisms of CO2 miscible flooding (phase behaviour, miscibility pressure, gravity over‐ride, etc.)
  3. Prediction of CO2 flooding; miscible and immiscible. Screening of oil reservoirs for CO2 flooding
  4. CO2 sources (natural and industrial platforms); equipment and wells
  5. Surveillance and monitoring, including radioactive tracer programs
  6. Process improvements; CO2 foam, CO2 gels, etc.
  7. CO2 Huff’n Puff
  8. CO2 storage in oil reservoirs during CO2 EOR processes
  9. Some well documented history cases; Miscible: Weyburn, SACROC, and Joffre.
    Immiscible: Bati Raman (Turkey), Trinidad and Romania projects, etc.