EOR: Miscible Gas Injection (RES47)
Description
This course will develop your understanding of the fundamentals of enhanced oil recovery, the applications of scientific principles to reservoir fluid phase behaviour and multiphase fluid flow in porous media. It provides you with mathematical tools to help in the design and selection of gas injection EOR projects.
Course Level: Advanced
Duration: 5 days
Course Level: Advanced
Duration: 5 days
Designed for you, if you are...
- A reservoir engineer working in EOR projects
How we build your confidence
This course builds a firm knowledge foundation by combining theory lectures with practical examples and case studies.The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will feel confident to:- Understand the thermodynamics of miscible gas injection in EOR
- Determine and apply principles of phase and volumetric behaviour of reservoir fluids
- Understand reservoir fluid trapping and mobilisation mechanisms
- Design a laboratory protocol for a successful gas injection project
- Validate laboratory data using numerical reservoir simulators
- Apply data to evaluate the miscible gas injection EOR processes
Topics
Reservoir rock- Core analysis objectives
- Representative Elementary Volume (REV)
- Pore size distribution and hysteresis
- Dynamic porosity
Reservoir fluids
- Classification of reservoir fluids
- Fluid phase behaviour and properties
- Advanced PVT studies
- RBA
- Swelling test
- Slimtube test
- Multiple-contact experiment
EOS modelling and characterisation
- Fluid phase behaviour calculations
- Fluid characterisation
- Application in compositional simulation
Multi-phase fluid distribution in the reservoir
- Wettability
- Interfacial tension
- Capillary pressure
- Phase trapping and mobilisation
- Capillary desaturation
Multi-phase flow in porous medium
- Flow equations
- Relative permeability
- Factor influencing relative permeability
- Relative permeability for miscible gas injection
- Methods of relative permeability determination
Oil and gas recovery methods
- Drive mechanisms
- EOR processes
- Gas injection EOR processes
- Screening and criteria of miscible gas injection EOR
Macroscopic displacement
- Immiscible displacement
- Mobility ratio
- Concept of critical speed
- Miscible displacement
- Dispersion coefficient
Miscible gas injection
- Thermodynamics of miscible gas injection
- First contact miscibility displacement
- Multiple-contact miscibility displacement
- Factors affecting microscopic and macroscopic displacement efficiencies
Miscible gas injection EOR experimental design and modelling
- Specialised relative permeability experiment
- EOR displacement experiments
- Calculation of longitudinal dispersion coefficient
- Lab scale compositional simulation
Reservoir simulation of miscible gas injection EOR
- Reservoir models
- Upscaling of miscible displacement processes
- Relative permeability approach for miscible gas injection
- PVT and flow data for miscible gas injection EOR
Customer Feedback
"Thank you for the good organisation of this course. Really, It was beyond my expectations." - Senior Reservoir Engineer at ETAP"It's quite comprehensive in terms of the general knowledge required to work on an EOR project." - Reservoir Engineer at Petrobras
"Excellent explanation of Miscible Gas Injection Fundamentals." - Senior Reservoir Engineer at Qatar Energy
"The course is organised very effectively, and I liked the instructor's proficiency and ability to explain the course." - Reservoir Engineer at KPO
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