This course focuses on the practical side of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). It presents thermal techniques and strategies, with a minimum of theory. Participants will learn to solve thermal EOR problems, and will receive workbooks with copies of the instructors’ presentations.

Introductory

1 Day

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.

This course is for petroleum, reservoir, production and facilities engineers, as well as managers, government officials and others who are interested in the practical aspects of thermal technologies for recovering heavy oil.

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units/8 hours) awarded for this 1-day course.

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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.

Paul L. Bondor is an expert in secondary recovery, EOR technologies, and the revitalization of mature oilfields. He has worked with Avasthi & Associates in Houston as a principal engineering and EOR advisor since 2006. Bondor has more than 42 years of worldwide oil and gas experience, including 35 years with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, where he served as Shell’s reservoir engineering instructor and the head of Royal Dutch/Shell’s EOR research. Since his retirement from Shell in 2003, he has continued to consult on reservoir technologies and practices.

Bondor holds a BS in engineering science, an MS in mechanical engineering, and a PhD in engineering, all from Case Western Reserve 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.

• Field Piloting for EOR/IOR Schemes ( Ashok K. Singhal)
• Geological Sequestration of CO₂ (S.M. Avasthi)
• Optimizing Gas Fields using Integrated Asset Modeling (S.M. Avasthi)
• Practical Aspects of CO₂ Flooding EOR and Introduction to CO₂ Geosequestration (S.M. Avasthi)
• Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding EOR and CO2 Geosequestration (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 (Luiz Amado, S.M. Avasthi)
• Screening and Field Piloting for EOR Project Development (Ashok K. Singha)
• Screening of Reservoirs for EOR/IOR ( Ashok K. Singhal)