This popular course is based on the SPE Monograph Volume 22, Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding, and is an outgrowth of The University of Texas, the Permian Basin and the SPE CO2 conferences, and training courses held in Midland, Texas over the past 13 years. The instructors spend most of the time on the practical aspects of CO2 flooding, keeping the theoretical aspects to a bare minimum. Instructors also discuss the economics of CO2 flooding compared to waterflooding. If there is enough interest among the participants, there will also be a discussion of CO2 geosequestration. Each attendee will receive a workbook containing copies of the instructors’ PowerPoint presentations, and solutions to the problems given in class.

Intermediate

1 Day

This course is a great opportunity to learn the practical aspects of CO2 flooding from seasoned veterans without getting mired in the technical details.  It’s a popular class, so register early.

This course is for anyone interested in CO2 flooding, hydrocarbon gas flooding or CO2 sequestration. Participants typically include petroleum, reservoir, and production engineers, as well as facilities engineers, managers, and government officials.

Attendees must bring a laptop to class; Excel programs will be provided in class.

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded for this 1-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.

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Charles E. (Chuck) Fox is vice president of operations and technology at Kinder Morgan CO2 in Houston, Texas. He currently manages operations of the McElmo Dome CO2 source field and some 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines. He is also responsible for his company’s oil and gas CO2 EOR operations, including the 5 billion-barrel Yates field, the 3 billion-barrel SACROC field, and the Snyder Gasoline Plant.

Fox has written on the practical aspects of CO2 flooding and has taught courses at the annual CO2 conferences held in Midland, Texas. He is a past chairman of the program committee of the SPE/DOE Fourteenth Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery. Fox holds an MS in petroleum engineering from Stanford University and a BS in mechanical engineering from Rice University.

S.M. (Sam) Avasthi, PE is chairman and CEO, founder, and director of engineering of EOR at Avasthi & Associates, a worldwide petroleum consulting company headquartered in Houston, Texas. He has extensive experience in oil and gas reservoir engineering and simulation, the revitalization of mature fields, EOR project design, as well as reservoir asset optimization and training.

Before founding his own company, Avasthi held senior-level petroleum engineering and consulting positions with a major oil and gas company and an international oil and gas consulting company. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, a Legion of Honor member of SPE, and a technical editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering journal, SPE Production & Operations journal, and SPE’s Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology.

Avasthi is an engineering alumnus of the Indian School of Mines, Imperial College of the University of London, and Texas A&M University. He earned his PhD in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University, and was a research fellow in chemical engineering at Rice University.

J.M. (Jay) Avasthi is the executive vice president and director of geoservices at Avasthi & Associates, a worldwide petroleum consulting company headquartered in Houston, Texas. He has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry. He has authored or coauthored numerous technical publications, has taught several courses, and conducted hands-on training workshops in his areas of expertise.

Avasthi earned degrees in applied geology and mining engineering from the Indian School of Mines and an MS from the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Before joining Avasthi & Associates, he held senior-level research and supervisory positions at Chevron for several years. He is a long-standing member of SPE, a technical editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering journal, and has served as the SPE Los Angeles Basin section director and program chairman.

Michael H. (Mike) Stein retired from BP in 2006 after 28 years of service, and is now a consultant specializing in enhanced oil recovery and integrated asset modeling. Stein was a team leader of the Integrated Asset Modeling group in BP’s Technology Center in Houston. He also directed research on ways to apply integrated asset modeling to monitor corrosion and erosion in real time, and to couple integrated asset modeling with reservoir simulation. Stein holds three US Patents, two in enhanced coal bed methane (ECBM) production, and one in automatic waterflood history matching. He is a long-standing member of SPE, has served on SPE editorial committees, and chaired SPE Reservoir Engineering committee to select papers for SPE’s Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition.

Stein he holds a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri, and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Purdue University.

• Geological Sequestration of CO₂ (J.M. Avasthi, S.M. Avasthi)
• Optimizing Gas Fields using Integrated Asset Modeling (S.M. Avasthi)
• Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding EOR and CO2 Geosequestration (Charles E. Fox, S. M. Avasthi, Michael H. Stein, J. M. Avasthi)
• Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR (S.M. Avasthi)
• Practical Reservoir Surveillance and Management Techniques for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Oil Recovery Projects (S.M. Avasthi)
• Practical Techniques for Screening Deepwater Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration Prospects (S.M. Avasthi)