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RES 429

Best Practices of Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects

The course is designed to provide attendants with solid understanding of different design aspects, types, screening criteria, and field application of current and advanced types of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. 

COURSE SCHEDULE

Code Date Location price (€)*
RES 429 14 - 18 Dec 2025 Online 1790
RES 429 6 – 10 Jul 2025 Online 1990
RES 429 8 – 12 Dec 2024 Online 1990
RES 429 1 – 5 Jun 2025 Istanbul 3990
RES 429 19 – 23 Oct 2025 Doha 3990

* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!

COURSE OVERVIEW

The course is designed to provide attendants with solid understanding of different design aspects, types, screening criteria, and field application of current and advanced types of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. This course presents an integrated approach of water flooding and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), it explains the connection of each process to the reservoir principles to the results of cases from the field and covers the specifics of chemical, miscible and thermal EOR processes.
Today, it is better to apply EOR in a secondary mode and satisfy design requirements. This course presents data gathering, application’s workflow, problems, uncertainties, geology, and reservoir characterization techniques required for different EOR methods. Does the course explain why water flooding is needed? and reasons for its failures. The course also covers screening, application, and constraints of all EOR processes of chemical, miscible, and thermal. Detailed EOR methods will be covered with many actual field cases worldwide. In addition, advanced hybrid EOR methods will be discussed such as low salinity, microbial, and others will be presented and discussed. The course is designed as an interactive learning environment of lecturing, industry videos, and screening field cases

COURSE OUTLINE

5 days
Day 1

o Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods.
o Data gathering of RCA and SCAL for EOR projects
o Screening criteria and mechanisms of different
EOR methods.
o How to maximize oil recovery using mobility ratio
and capillary number
o Limitations, challenges, uncertainties and
problems of different EOR methods Integrated Core
Analysis and Coring Program

Day 2

o Reservoir concepts, main rock and fluid properties
for EOR
o Using Routine and Special Core Analysis (RCAL &
SCAL)
o Five different reservoir fluids and downhole
sampling tools
o Detailed reservoir fluid study (five tests)
o Different tools for downhole fluid sampling
o Advanced reservoir geology and characterization
techniques for EOR methods

Day 3

o Water flooding: design requirement, frontal
displacement theory
o Classification and screening of different chemical
EOR methods

o Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties, and degradation
o Alkaline/polymer (AP) and ASP flooding: process
and limitations
o Three actual field results: Daqing (China),
Kentucky (USA), Norne Field (Norway)

Day 4

o Miscible gas EOR: CO2 and Nitrogen injection
methods;
o Determination of minimum miscibility pressure
(MMP).
o Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding
processes.
o Carbon dioxide field selection and screening
application
o Actual field cases for CO2 and WAG process

Day 5

o Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam
injection.
o Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
o In- situ combustion method: wet and dry
applications o Carbon dioxide field selection and
screening application
o Microbial EOR, Low Salinity Water (LSW), electric,
seismic EOR
o Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and CAPRI
processes
o Hybrid-chemical thermal and CO2-thermal EOR
process

INSTRUCTOR

Professor Shedid A. Shedid

His is a consultant to major oil and service companies. Bahman is Managing Director of “HYDRAFACT LIMITED” a Heriot-Watt spin-out Company formed in late 2005 with Flow Assurance and PVT as its main area of activity.  Hydrafact played a major role in Heriot-Watt University winning the Queen’s Anniversary Awards in 2015. Bahman was the recipient of “Life Time Achievement” from the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrate, Denver, USA, in June 2017 for significant, continuous contributions to the area of hydrate research, practice, and/or exploration, for a period of over twenty five years. Also, his research group work was recognized as one of the top 10 UK examples of the role of Chemical Engineering in Modern World by the IChemE in 2016. He has more than 450 publication, several book chapters and 13 patents.

FAQ

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum Engineers & Reservoir Engineers, Geologists, Petrophysicists, Geophysicists, Geological engineers & other discipline engineers, other individuals who need to know about current & advanced techniques of EOR.

COURSE LEVEL
  •  Intermediate 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The main learning objectives of the course include
o Describe and apply water flooding and different
EOR processes
o Reservoir characterization and screening actual
fields for EOR methods
o How to maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio
and Capillary Number
o Chemical EOR: polymer, alkaline-polymer, and
alkaline/surfactant/polymer
o Miscible and thermal EOR techniques and new advancements in EOR techniques

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* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!

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