Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A reservoir engineer working in heavy oil thermal EOR projects

How we build your confidence

The benefits from attending

• Thermodynamics of heavy oils
• Mechanisms of steam injection
• How to determine and apply the analytical and semi-analytical models for evaluation of recovery efficiency
• How to differentiate hot-water drives, steam drives, cyclic steam injection, and SAGD
• Designing a laboratory protocol for a successful steam injection project
• How to validate and use laboratory data in thermal reservoir simulators
• The screening and planning of the appropriate thermal EOR method

Topics

• Structural composition
• Advanced characterisation of heavy fractions
• Rheological properties
• Foaminess of heavy oils
• Emulsions
• Advanced PVT experiments
• EOS modelling and characterisation

• Reservoir characterisation
• High porosity and permeability
• Unconsolidated sands
• Relative permeability

• Non-thermal recovery methods
  - Cold heavy oil production with sands (CHOPS)
  - Primary recovery by solution gas drive
  - Foamy oil mechanism
• Thermal recovery methods
  - Hot water injection
  - Steam injection
  - In situ combustion
• Other processes
  - Polymer injection
  - CO2 injection
  - VAPEX
  - THAI process
• Screening and the criteria of thermal EOR

• Steam
• Steam zone growth
• Steam flood design
• Advanced core flood experiments
• Recovery mechanisms

• The Boberg and Lantz method
• The Towson and Boberg model

• The Neuman model
• The Vogel model