Online Live Streaming Course
5 sessions ( approx. 4 hours each) , November 10th to 14th, 2025
Duration : 20 hours
Course outline
- Introduction
- Displacement Fundamentals
- Polymer Flooding
- Surfactant/Polymer Flooding
- Alkaline /Surfactant /Polymer Flooding
- Conformance Improvement Methods
- Hybrid Chemical EOR Methods
- Monitoring and Surveillance
- Carbonate Reservoirs for CEOR
- Review of Commercial Simulators for CEOR
Course Overview
- Brief overview of different EOR methods for light and heavy oil.
- Review of fundamental principles of displacement and phase behavior needed to understand chemical EOR methods.
- Cover four major types of chemical EOR, specific chemicals in each category, conditions under which they work, and special problems encountered with each.
- Review of phase behavior and fluid property modeling.
- This course gives an overview of each method:
1: Polymer Flooding
2: Surfactant/Polymer Flooding
3: Alkaline /Surfactant /Polymer Flooding
4: Conformance Improvement Methods
Overview and Polymer Flooding
- Introduction
- Chemical EOR Overview
- Commercial Reservoir Simulator Options
- Polymer Overview & Lab Experiments
- Polymer Property Models
- Polymer Coreflood
- Heavy oil- Viscous Fingering
- Polymer Property Excel Exercise
- Polymer Field Cases
- Polymer Models
Conformance Methods Surfactant Flooding
- Conformance Methods (polymer/gel and foam)
- Overview of Surfactant Flooding
- SP Coreflood Tests
- Surfactant Property Models
- Surfactant Property Models
- Microemulsion Phase Behavior
- SP Field Cases
Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer Flooding Hybrid Methods
- Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer Flooding (ASP)
- ASP Field Cases
- ASP Modeling and Pilot Design
- Field Cases
- Hybrid Methods
- Low salinity/polymer
- Low Tension Gas
- Monitoring and Surveillance of CEOR project
