COURSE OVERVIEW:

Advanced Water Flooding, Gas Injection, and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Strategies represent the critical technical disciplines required to maximize hydrocarbon recovery beyond primary production limits. This topic is essential to the global energy sector because most mature fields still contain more than half of their original oil in place after initial recovery efforts. By implementing these sophisticated secondary and tertiary recovery methods, organizations can significantly extend the economic life of their assets, improve resource stewardship, and maintain production plateaus in an increasingly supply-constrained market.

The scope of this course covers the fundamental physics of displacement, the design of injection patterns, and the specialized chemistry of EOR agents. Key themes include the management of mobility ratios, the optimization of sweep efficiency, and the technical challenges of miscible gas and polymer flooding. The syllabus bridges the gap between reservoir simulation and field-level execution, ensuring that participants can design injection programs that are both technically sound and economically viable under varying reservoir architectures and fluid properties.

In the real workplace, participants will apply these advanced strategies to mitigate rapid production declines and manage complex reservoir heterogeneities. These interventions lead to significant operational excellence outcomes, including improved volumetric sweep and higher ultimate recovery factors. By mastering these EOR workflows, engineers ensure organizational resilience, maintaining high-quality output while adhering to strict environmental and regulatory compliance standards during large-scale injection operations.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

• Evaluate reservoir suitability for various secondary and tertiary recovery methods.
• Optimize water injection patterns and voidage replacement ratios for pressure support.
• Design miscible and immiscible gas injection projects to enhance microscopic displacement.
• Manage mobility control using polymer flooding and surfactant-polymer techniques.
• Analyze the impact of reservoir heterogeneity on vertical and areal sweep efficiency.
• Implement surveillance programs using Hall plots and Chan plots for flood diagnostics.
• Predict the performance of EOR projects using advanced analytical and numerical models.
• Mitigate the risks of early breakthrough and fingering in high-permeability channels.
• Evaluate the economics and risk profiles of high-CAPEX EOR pilot projects.
• Integrate CO2 capture and storage (CCS) with enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR).
• Design water-alternating-gas (WAG) cycles to improve displacement stability.
• Conduct comprehensive core flood analysis to validate recovery expectations.
• Manage the environmental and surface facility requirements for chemical EOR.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Senior Reservoir Engineers
• Production Enhancement Specialists
• Asset Managers
• Subsurface Team Leads
• EOR Project Coordinators

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, 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 will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

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 completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.