This two-day course will emphasize critical considerations during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) screening and pilot design. Topics include:

• Conceptualizing EOR schemes (gas injection, thermal recovery, and chemical flooding)
• Risks and risk mitigation in EOR
• Screening of reservoirs for gas, thermal, and chemical EOR
• Conceptual design and evaluation of EOR pilots
• Reservoir surveillance and monitoring
• EOR project implementation

The objectives are to introduce various considerations during EOR screening and pilot design:

• Steps involved in EOR project development
• Screening of prospects for different EOR processes
• Field tests and laboratory investigations for developing an EOR project
• Development of EOR field pilots and interpretation
• Monitoring and surveillance

Appropriate case studies and exercises will be used to illustrate various concepts. Attendees are encouraged to bring relevant EOR related problems for use as in-class exercises.

This course will provide participants the opportunity to review and learn the most up-to-date information available about EOR technologies and strategies practiced today.

Engineers, geologists, managers, and planning personnel involved in EOR project development. This is an intermediate level course. Prior exposure to EOR would be highly desirable.

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1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded for this 2-day course.

To receive a full refund, all cancellations must be received in writing no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Send cancellation requests by email to trainingcourses@spe.org; by fax to +1.866.460.3032 (US) or +1.972.852.9292 (outside US); or mail to SPE Registration, PO Box 833836, Richardson, TX 75083.

For more details, please contact us at trainingcourses@spe.org.

Ashok K. Singhal, an expert in EOR technologies and horizontal well applications, is a principal consultant with Premier Reservoir Engineering Services, where he provides consulting and training in EOR. He has more than 35 years of worldwide oil and gas experience in heavy oil and tar sand reservoir engineering, horizontal well technology, CO2 flooding, thermal EOR, and waterflood projects. He has lectured on EOR, horizontal well applications, and other topics around the world.

Singhal is an engineering alumnus of Indian School of Mines and the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He earned his PhD in petroleum engineering from the University of California and later taught chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta. He is a long standing member of SPE.

• Field Piloting for EOR/IOR Schemes
• Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR
• Practical Reservoir Surveillance and Management Techniques for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Oil Recovery Projects
• Screening of Reservoirs for EOR/IOR