Agenda

Although Waterflooding can increase the volume of oil recovered in a reservoir, it comes with its share of challenges and limitations. The compatibility of injected water with the reservoir connate water, the interaction of the injected water with the reservoir rock, are just two of the challenges to consider. This session will share some of these challenges as well as how to navigate around them thereby resulting in the improved recover factor that we desire.

This session covers challenges of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using various chemical methods and gas injection. Results of laboratory studies, field applications and a case study that compares CO2 flood, nitrogen injection and waterflood will be presented by the experts.

Key aspects of chemical EOR discussion include: (1) right timing for field implementation of polymer flood, surfactant/polymer flood and alkali/surfactant/polymer; and (2) optimized treatment of production effluents from chemical EOR.

The discussion about improving recovery factor of reservoirs passes necessarily by the enhanced oil recovery methods.
Although waterflooding dominates in the onshore oil industry, the maturity of the fields, sometimes associated with the divestment of many assets, brings the opportunity to discuss applications of special EOR techniques.  It is intended to give space to presentations about EOR methods that could bring back oil and gas production to higher levels, balancing OPEX and CAPEX.
This session is dedicated to themes such as: gas injection methods, thermochemical methods (prevention of paraffin wax deposition), CO2-WAG injection, chemical flooding methods, among others, related to incremental recoveries.

When considering all the factors that can affect the recovery factors of onshore wells, the proper selection and operation of the artificial lift system plays a key role. This session will share Best Practices on selecting, operating and optimization of the artificial lift system for the applications at hand as well as some of the complexities associated with it.

In the 4.0 industrial revolution, digital transformation is among us impacting every business aspect. In this session we will discuss how technology is playing a role in improving recovery factors. We would like to explore not only where emerging and digital technologies were applied but also how it impacts in the process disruption and transformation in organizations.

This section aims to discuss the relevance and influence of regulatory frameworks, regulatory models for the oil industry and gas in Brazil and abroad, in addition to innovations in processes aimed at reducing emissions and increasing sustainable actions in the development of activities in mature fields, in the scenario of implementation of actions to increase the recovery factor of these fields.

Successful field development and recovery factors are strongly dependent on how you connect small well radius to large scale reservoir by well design  and completion strategies. In this session, new economical completion and stimulation technologies will be discussed in order to improve productivities and injectivities in mature fields due to any formation damage, low energy or mechanical problems.

In this session we will address the subjects related to investment and operational costs.
The overall cost of production per barrel represents a key issue to provide competitive advantage economic sustainability to the companies. Subjects as cost pressure, cost-saving programs, third-party cost shall be of great interest to onshore companies. Right cost reduction strategy is very important to survival and growth, mainly when the distinction between cost savings and cost avoidance is fully comprehended.
Discussions about shared infrastructure are favorable to encourage the collaboration on common usage of facilities can ensure optimum utilization for crude transportation and export, among other operations.