Reservoir Engineering
Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery
All courses
Basic concepts
Oil recovery basics
- Primary oil recovery
- Secondary oil recovery – Improved oil recovery
- Tertiary oil recovery – Enhanced oil recovery
Reservoir engineering concepts
- Fluid displacement
- Rock properties:
- Surface tension
- Rock wettability
- Capillary pressure
- Relative permeability
- Mobility and mobility ratio
- Fractional flow curve
- Total Recovery efficiency
Waterflooding
- Basic concepts
- Reservoir and injection water analysis
- Injection patterns
- Reservoir heterogeneity influence
- Waterflooding efficiency analysis
- Waterflooding monitoring
Gas injection (immiscible)
- Basic concepts
- Reservoir and injection water analysis
- Injection patterns
- Reservoir heterogeneity influence
- Waterflooding efficiency analysis
Enhanced oil recovery
- EOR methods and basic key points
- Screening
- Chemical EOR
- Polymer
- Surfactant
- Alkali
- SP and ASP
- Smart Water
- CO2 injection
- Foam injection
Conclusions
- Course closure and discussion