Enhance Oil Recovery Methods: Theory and Application
Oil, Gas & Petroleum · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 2,500
Overview
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has received significant attention in recent years. This course provides many advanced tools & techniques to help address the challenges of providing a more reliable and sound oil recovery background. It presents parameters, techniques, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of each technique, simplified and more complex simulation methods of EOR. It covers different techniques of oil recovery such as immiscible and miscible gas and hydrocarbon solvent injections, steam and air injections, polymer, surfactant, alkali-surfactant floods, and microbial EOR.
Learning Objectives
Know the oil reservoir drive mechanisms including the types of reservoir energy, fluid properties, material balance, compaction drives, etc.
Describe the process of water flooding by identifying its design, operation, and monitoring.
Acquaint the participants with the concept of immiscible gas injection in oil reservoirs by discussing the techniques & calculation methods used in immiscible gas/oil displacement and identifying the compositional effects during immiscible gas displacement.
Develop an in-depth understanding of polymers, gels, foams, and resins including their conformance problems and improvements.
Become familiar with the miscible processes which include designing a miscible flood, knowing its compositional numerical simulation and prediction of compositionally enhanced solvent flood behavior.
Learn the process of thermal recovery by steam injection and discuss their design calculation, steam delivery systems, and heat management.
Become aware of the process description of in-situ combustion using the laboratory studies and explain in detail its screening guidelines and operation practices.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for reservoir engineers, production engineers, field operation staff, and other professionals seeking to strengthen their capability in this area.
Reservoir Engineers
Production Engineers
Field operation staff
Management personnel
The course is aimed at petroleum engineers
Course Outline
Day 1 — Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery
Volatile-and-Black-Oil Fluid Characteristics
Types of Reservoir Energy
Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
Reservoir Rock and Fluids Properties
Day 2 — Determination of Hydrocarbon in Place
Reserve Estimation and Classification
Reservoir Management Plan
Secondary Recovery and Pressure Maintenance
Waterflood Design, Monitoring and Field-Case-Studies
Day 3 — Microscopic Efficiency of Immiscible Displacement
Miscible and Immiscible Displacement (N2, LPG, CO2)
Miscible Recovery Processes (Screening Criteria and
Field Applications)
Field Examples and Case Histories
Day 4 — Chemical EOR Processes (Idea, technologies, processes)
Polymers processes (Screening Criteria and Field Applications)
Surfactant processes (Screening Criteria and Field Applications)
Field Examples and Case Histories
Day 5 — Thermal Recovery Techniques
Steam Field Applications (Screening Criteria, Steam flood
Design, Cyclic Steam Stimulation Design, Design
Considerations; and Field Applications)
Bio-chemical Recovery Processes
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum courses cover?
The portfolio spans the full value chain: upstream exploration, drilling and well control; midstream processing, pipelines and gas treatment; and downstream refining and petrochemicals — plus process safety management (PSM), HAZOP studies, corrosion control and plant operations. Trainers are practitioners from the sector.
Who should attend an oil, gas and petroleum course?
These courses suit process, production and petroleum engineers, plant and field operators and supervisors, maintenance and inspection staff, HSE and process safety professionals, and technical or commercial staff joining the sector from another industry.
How long are oil, gas and petroleum courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can oil, gas and petroleum training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.