EOR potential evaluation using SelectEOR^TM

Course outline

1. Primary recovery
   • Mechanism of oil recovery - solution gas drive, natural water drive and gas cap
   • Estimation of current oil saturation
   • Solution and producing GOR. Producing GOR equation
   • Predicting solution gas drive. Discussion
   • Performance of gas drive regime in different conditions. Heavy oil reservoirs, fractured reservoirs, etc
2. Fundamentals of EOR
   • Mechanisms of EOR methods; mobility ratio importance
   • Waterflooding; Buckley-Leverett method
   • Effect of heterogeneity
   • Effect of gravity segregation
3. EOR screening criteria
   • Goal of the screening criteria
   • Limitations
   • Discussion regarding different sets of screening criteria
   • Screening criteria
   • Software for screening reservoirs for EOR application
4. Laboratory testing of EOR methods
   • Polymer injection: resistance factor, residual resistance factor, screen factor, etc
   • Gas miscible displacement: MMP, MMC, corefloodings, etc.
   • Steam injection: oil viscosity reduction with temperature, residual oil saturation for steam flooding
   • In-situ combustion: fuel deposition, air requirement, oxydability of oil, etc.
5. SelectEOR software for EOR performance predictions
   • Detailed presentation of SelectEOR
   • The main points of technical documentation (prediction methods): polymer, gas miscible and immiscible, steam injection and in-situ combustion
   • Demonstration for selected reservoirs
6. Hands-on with students
   • Application for 2-3 reservoirs - light and heavy oil cases