Course Coverage

Course Title : EOR/IOR Techniques

B. Tech. IV Year, VII Semester, 2014, Faculty : Prof. Uma Shanker Prasad

Sl. No. of Topics Assignments(A)

No. lectures Quizzes(Q)
Projects(P)
1 4 Introduction to EOR Processes, EOR Screening Criteria: EOR Q(1), For A & P
Screening Criteria for Miscible, Gas Injection Processes,EOR on all the topics to
Screening Criteria for Chemical Flooding Processes, EOR be identified
Screening Criteria for Thermal Processes separate
discussions will be
held in tutorials
and Project(PE)
2 9 Miscible Gas Injection Processes : Basic Concepts on Miscibility Q(1)
for Gas Displacement Processes, First-Contact Miscibility (FCM) ,
Multiple-Contact Miscibility (MCM), Vaporizing Gas Drive MCM
Process,Condensing Gas Drive MCM Process,Combined
Condensing/Vaporizing (CV) Gas Drive MCM Process ,Methods for
Determination of MMP or MME for Gasfloods,Analytical
Techniques for Estimation of MMP or MME, Experimental
Methods, Types of Miscible Gas Flooding , Nitrogen/Flue-gas
Miscible Gas Flooding, Hydrocarbon (HC) Miscible Gas Flooding
,Carbon Dioxide Gas Flooding , Types of Miscible Gas Injection
Strategies
3 7 Chemical Flooding Processes: Polymer/Surfactant Flooding, Q(1)
Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer (ASP) Flooding, Polymer Flooding,
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)
4 12 Thermal Processes: Steamflooding Methods, Steamflood Models, Q(1)
Management of Steamflood Projects, In-Situ Combustion
(ISC)/High Pressure Air Injection (HPAI)
5 4 Implementation of EOR Projects : Process Screening and
Selection, Quick Economic Evaluation of Selected Processes,
Geologic and Reservoir Modeling of Selected Processes,
Expanded Economic Evaluation of Selected Processes, Pilot
Testing, Upgrade Geologic and Reservoir Models with Pilot, Test
Data/Results, Final Detailed Economic Evaluation, Field-Wide
Project Implementation, EOR Process Project Management

Text Books:
(i) Applied enhanced oil recovery : Aurel Carcoana.
(ii) EOR( SPE Text Book) : Green and Willhite
(iii) Miscible Displacement : F. I. Stalkup, Jr.
(iv) Thermal recovery : Prat
***( Quiz : 4, assignments : 4)