COURSE OVERVIEW:

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes are capital-intensive and technically demanding, making the correct screening and selection of candidate reservoirs absolutely critical for success. Poorly screened projects often lead to low incremental recovery, operational challenges, and uneconomical developments. This course provides a comprehensive and practical framework for screening oil reservoirs for different EOR methods, integrating geological, petrophysical, fluid, and operational constraints into a coherent decision-making process.

Participants will review the main families of EOR processes such as gas injection, chemical flooding, polymer floods, surfactant and alkaline methods, miscible and immiscible EOR, thermal processes, and emerging hybrid techniques. The course explains how to translate reservoir and fluid data (pressure, temperature, depth, oil gravity, viscosity, salinity, heterogeneity, wettability, and saturation state) into screening indicators for each EOR option. Particular emphasis is placed on screening criteria, ranking and selection workflows, data quality issues, and uncertainty management.

The course will also address laboratory support (PVT, special core analysis, phase behavior, and displacement experiments), numerical modeling concepts for EOR, pilot design considerations, and the economic and risk aspects of screening decisions. Through examples, case histories, and interactive exercises, participants will develop the skills to identify suitable reservoirs, narrow down feasible EOR options, build rational screening matrices, and justify recommendations to management and partners.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Explain the main categories of EOR processes and their mechanisms of improving oil recovery.
• Describe the critical role of reservoir screening in the overall EOR project life cycle.
• Identify key reservoir and fluid properties that control EOR applicability, including depth, temperature, pressure, oil gravity, oil viscosity, and formation water salinity.
• Interpret geological and petrophysical information (porosity, permeability, heterogeneity, fractures, layering) for use in EOR screening.
• Apply standard screening criteria and guidelines for gas injection, miscible EOR, chemical flooding, polymer floods, and thermal methods.
• Evaluate laboratory and PVT data requirements to support EOR screening and feasibility assessment.
• Construct screening matrices and ranking tables to compare different EOR options for a given reservoir or portfolio of reservoirs.
• Assess the impact of rock fluid interactions, wettability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability on EOR process selection.
• Recognize operational constraints such as injectivity, facilities limitations, chemical handling, and water quality in the screening stage.
• Incorporate economic indicators, uncertainties, and risk factors into EOR screening and preliminary project evaluation.
• Distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary processes and understand when EOR screening should be initiated in a field’s life.
• Interpret results from pilot tests, simulation studies, and field trials to refine screening decisions and update project rankings.
• Develop structured workflows and checklists for screening reservoirs at the field and portfolio level.
• Communicate screening outcomes and recommendations effectively to management, partners, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Review case histories of successful and unsuccessful EOR projects to extract screening lessons and best practices for future applications.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Reservoir engineers and senior reservoir engineers
• Petroleum and production engineers involved in EOR projects
• Field development and asset engineers
• EOR project coordinators and project managers
• Petrophysicists and geoscientists supporting EOR studies
• Laboratory specialists and PVT engineers involved in EOR experiments
• Petroleum economists and planning engineers working on EOR opportunities
• Technical managers and team leaders are responsible for reservoir development strategies
• Government and regulatory professionals reviewing EOR proposals
• Any technical staff involved in screening, evaluating, or planning EOR projects

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximise the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance the learning experience. Course material through PowerPoint equipped with necessary animation, learning videos, and general discussions will be provided.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total attendance time requirement.