Department: Department of Petroleum Engineering Page 3 of 5

Faculty: Faculty of Petroleum & Renewable

Energy Engineering
Semester: 1
Course & Code: Enhanced Oil Recovery (SKPP 4333)
Academic Session:
Total Contact Hours: 42 hours
2017/2018

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Week 1-2 : 1.0 Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery

1.1 Waterflooding - Overview
1.2 Definition of EOR and IOR
1.3 Microscopic and Macroscopic Displacement Efficiency
1.4 Entrapment and Mobilization of Residual Oil
1.5 The Influence of Recovery Mechanism in Residual oil
saturation.

Week 3 : 2.0 Displacement Efficiency

2.1 Capillary Forces
2.2 Factors controlling the capillary forces
2.3 Viscous Forces
2.4 Factors controlling the viscous forces
2.5 Capillary Number Calculation and Correlation

3.0 Vertical and Volumetric Displacement Efficiency

Weeks 4 : 3.1 Mobility Ratio Basic Principles
3.2 Mobility Ratio Calculation and Correlation
3.3 Viscous Gravity Ratio
3.4 Factors Affecting VGR
3.5 VGR Calculation

Weeks 5-6 : 4.0 Chemical Flooding Processes

4.1 Elementary Mechanisms of Oil recovery by Chemical Methods
4.2 Polymer Flooding
4.2.1 Displacement Mechanisms and Criteria
4.2.2 Factors Affecting Polymer Flooding
4.2.3 Polymer Adsorption and Retention
4.3 Surfactant/Micellar Flooding
4.3.1 Displacement Mechanisms and Criteria
4.3.2 Factors Affecting Surfactant Flooding
4.3.3 Type of Surfactant and Surfactant Adsorption
4.4 Alkaline Flooding
4.4.1 Displacement Mechanisms and Criteria
4.5 ASP Flooding
4.6 Case Studies and Field Experience of Chemical Flooding
4.7 Screening Criteria

Weeks 7-9 : 5.0 Miscible Gas Flooding Processes

5.1 General Description of Miscible/Immiscible Flooding
5.2 Principles of Phase Behaviour and Miscibility
5.3 Ternary Diagrams to represent Gas Injection Processes
5.4 First Contact and Multiple Contact Processes
5.5 CO2 Miscible Process
5.6 Measurement and Prediction of MMP
5.7 Factors Affecting Displacement Behaviour
5.7.1 Viscous Fingering
5.7.2 Mobility Control
5.8 Nitrogen and Other Gases
5.9 Field Experience