Polymer Flooding: From Fundamentals to Field Design & Operations (PRE49)
Description
Course Level: Skill / Advanced
Duration: 3 days
Designed for you, if you are...
- A reservoir engineer
- A petroleum engineer
- An EOR project manager
- A facilities or process engineer supporting injection/production operations
- A technical staff involved in field development planning, pilot design, and surveillance
How we build your confidence
- Live, instructor-led lectures with visuals
- Case studies from recent polymer flooding projects
- Hands-on design exercises (screening, flood sizing, economics)
- Simulation examples
- Group discussions and troubleshooting playbook
- Videos and illustrative animations
The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will be able to:- Understand polymer flooding mechanisms, applicability, and benefits compared to waterflooding
- Gain knowledge of polymer chemistry, rheology, and formulation selection
- Learn structured workflows for reservoir screening, flood design, and simulation
- Recognise and mitigate injectivity and fracturing risks
- Acquire best practices for surface facilities, makeup units, and QC protocols
- Anticipate production and water treatment challenges
- Master monitoring tools, KPIs, and diagnostic interpretation
- Evaluate project economics, uncertainties, and scaleup issues
- Apply concepts through real-world case studies and design exercises
Topics
Fundamentals & Design- Introduction & strategic context
- Polymer flooding overview & physics (mobility control, mechanisms, applicability)
- Polymer 101: chemistry & rheology
- Screening & design workflow: field/reservoir criteria, slug design, viscosity, timing, polymer selection, lab testing, simulation, economics
Injection & Operations
- Injectivity, fracturing risks, wellbore shear, fracture diagnostics
- Surface facilities, equipment & logistics (make-up units, dosing, redundancy)
- Quality control: on-site checks, oxygen scavengers, biocides, SOPs
- Water treatment & production challenges
Surveillance, Economics & Field Cases
- Monitoring tools & KPIs (rates, pressures, tracer use, polymer tracking)
- Reservoir response interpretation: early/mid/late signals, troubleshooting playbook
- Economics: $/cp, $/bbl OOIP gained, NPV/IRR, scale-up uncertainty
- Field case studies & emerging topics
- Practical design exercises & wrap-up
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