Enhanced Oil

Recovery
Concepts and Mechanisms
By: Dr. Ezzat E. Gomaa

In-House
In-HouseTraining
TrainingCourse
Course
EORPertamina
for - Pertamina
EPEP
Jakarta, 26 –October
Jakarta, 28 October
2015 2015
 Outline and Agenda for Training Course
“Concepts and Mechanisms of EOR Processes”

by Dr. Ezzat E. Gomaa

Day 1 (26 October 2015)

INTRODUCTION

 Units and conversion factors

 Oil recovery phases and definition of oil recovery factors
 Overview of EOR processes

EOR MECHANISMS AND SCREENING GUIDELINES

 Displacement efficiency in immiscible floods

 Displacement efficiency in miscible floods
 Areal sweep efficiency
 Vertical sweep efficiency
 Fluid trapping in reservoir rocks
 Parameters that affect oil recovery
 EOR screening and evaluation guidelines

Day 2 (27 October 2015)

PHASE BEHAVIOR OF HYDROCARBONS

 Pressure-temperature diagrams
 Ternary equilibrium diagrams
 First contact miscibility
 Condensing and vaporizing gas drive miscibility
 Phase behavior experiments
 Selecting pseudo components

MISCIBLE FLOODS

 Comparison of solvents
 Designing a miscible flood
 Miscible slug processes
 Water-alternating gas (WAG) processes
 Estimating oil recovery factors
 Miscible flood case
Day 3 (28 October 2015)

CHEMICAL FLOODS

 Polymer characteristics
 Comparison of polymers
 Viscosity of polymer solutions
 Inaccessible pore volume
 Permeability reduction and visco-elastic effects
 Polymer degradation and retention in reservoir rocks
 Type and required amount of polymer
 Surfactant characteristics and phase behavior of surfactant-oil-water systems
 Optimal salinity and capillary de-saturation curves
 Surfactant retention in reservoir rocks
 Thin film spreading agents
 Type and required amount of surfactant
 Alkaline characteristics
 Effect of chemicals on fractional flow
 Estimating oil recovery factor for chemical floods
 Chemical flood cases