Onshore EOR & Water Injection
5 Day Course
Core topics include introduction to EOR, EOR for heavy oil fields, water injection well design, chemical injection and monitoring/surveillance, processing and water treating along with applicable case studies.
Course Outline
Day 1 - EOR
Introduction to EOR and various technics ( ½ Day)
Waterflood, Polymer Flooding, Nitrogen Flooding, CO2 Flooding, Cyclic /continuous Steam Injection, WAG, SAGD
Overview
Planning
Reservoir Effects & Chemical considerations
Optimization
Surveillance
Simulation and Forecasting
Special Considerations
EOR for heavy oil fields (challenges and solutions)
Thermal methods for heavy oil
Selection criteria
Recovery targets
Desing considerations
Technical Challenges
Day 2 - Water Injection Well Design
Well selection considerations.
Water properties considerations
Water treatment and chemicals selection
Tubular design
Materials selection
Fluid distribution
Mandrels spacing
Valves configuration
Facilities Overview
Day 3 - Chemical Injection & Monitoring, Surveillance
Chemical injection system design Overview
Chemical selection
Production chemistry, sampling, and testing
Monitoring & Surveillance
Chemical controls
Biological Control
Solids Control and Filtration
Oxygen Removal
Corrosion inhibition
Scaling and souring control
Performance assessment
Hall-plot
Tracers
PLT/ILT
Geochemistry
Stiff Diagrams
Day 4 - Processing & Water Treating
Water Injection System Design and Operation
Design of Injection System and Equipment
Typical Injection System Components
Water physical and chemical treatment
Biological Control
Chemical Injection
Materials of Construction
Redundancy and Sparing
Package Arrangements
Monitoring and Surveillance
Water Hammer
Standards requirements (i.e., NACE, ASTM, ISO, API)
Day 5 - Case Studies
Waterflooding – South America
Polymer Flooding – South America
Nitrogen – South America : Mix with steam huff and puff
Continuous Steam Injection – Middle East
Steam huff and puff –South America
Water Injection – USA, South America
CO2 Flooding - USA
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