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Water Flooding Management and EOR For Improving Hydrocarbon Recovery


Course & Workshop

April 7-11, 2024

Instructor: A. Salem, P. Eng., Ph.D

 

Who Should Attend

This course is aimed at reservoir, petroleum and exploitation engineers/technologists, and geologists who are involved in the area of EOR schemes.

Course Objectives

This course provides a complete review of the waterflood scheme being the most proven, lowest cost, and applicable to various types of reservoirs. The various steps of waterflood implementation including cursory screening of candidate fields, scheme planning, design, and the estimation of the expected recovery using the most common methods in the industry.

Additional improvements in oil recovery using the most common secondary and tertiary methods are also discussed. Method mechanism, limitations, expected performance, and estimation of the expected recovery, are discussed. Design procedures and laboratory tests required are reviewed for the various EOR schemes including the application of CO2, miscible gas, steam, and chemical floods. Interesting class examples using actual field data will be presented. A detailed course hand-out which is an excellent reference, will be provided.

Course Agenda

Petroleum Geology:

  • Main elements of petroleum reservoirs: hydrocarbon migration & traps

  • Depositional environment and impact on reservoir quality

  • Reservoir facies and heterogeneity

Rock Properties:

  • Porosity types, permeability: relative, absolute, effective

  • Rock wettability and capillary pressure

Fluid Properties:

  • Hydrocarbon classifications

  • Fluid behaviors; oil and gas physical properties (class problem)

  • Fluid sampling and PVT analysis

Reserves Determination:

  • Volumetric, material balance, and probabilistic methods (class problem)

  • Decline analysis

  • Empirical method (Russian method !)

Waterflood Schemes:

  • Review and screening of EOR schemes

  • Waterflood displacement mechansim (fractional flow, Buckley Leverett) Scheme planning and design Factors that impact oil recovery

  • Prediction of recovery effeciency using Dykstra and Parsons, Stiles method and other empirical techniques

EOR schemes:

  • Scheme screening and limitations

  • Laboratory tests to define key parameters to optimize scheme design

  • Physical properties of injected fluids

  • Expected incremental oil recovery

  • Scheme planning and design

  • Performance monitoring

CO2 flooding

Gas miscible flooding

Chemical flooding

Steam flooding

Location

First day will be held at the Holiday Inn Maadi Hotel, in Cairo. The participants will fly the next day to Hurghada. The course will be continued in Hurghada.

 

Course Fees

Inclusive of refreshment and lunch at the Holiday Inn Maadi Hotel. Air Ticket Cairo/Hurghada return and accommodation in Hurghada.

 

Instructor Profile

Dr. Adel M. Salem Ragab, Consultant Petroleum Engineer

Education

Ph.D. Nov. 2008 Ph. D. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Leoben, Austria. Dissertation Title:
“Simulation of Hydrodynamic Slug Formation in Multiphase Flowlines and Separation Devices”. Supervisor: Prof. W. Brandstatter.
M. Sc. Feb 1999 M. Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, Suez Canal University.
Thesis Title: “Comparative Investigation of Factors Affecting Formation Damage Caused by Completion and Workover Fluids”.
B. Sc. May 1994

Academic Experience:

2018- Present Professor, Head of Petroleum Engineering, Suez Canal University.
Feb. 2015 – 2016 Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Future University in Egypt, FUE, Faculty of Engineering & Technology,
Department of Petroleum Engineering.
Sept. 2011 – Dec. 2014 Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, American University in Cairo, AUC, School of Sciences and Engineering, Department of Petroleum and Energy Engineering.
March 2009 – Aug. 2011 Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Suez Canal University, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Pet. Eng. Department.
Dec. 2005 – Feb. 2009 University of Leoben (Montan Universit?t Leoben), Leoben, Austria. Department of Mineral Resources and Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum Production and Processing, Austria.
Sept. 2004 – Nov. 2005 Suez Canal University: Petroleum Engineering Department, Suez, Egypt. Teaching Assistant (TA), and Researcher
Dec. 2003 – Aug. 2004 Visiting researcher, University of Bologna: Chemical, Mining and Environmental Engineering – DICMA, Viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna, Italy
1996 – Nov. 2003 Suez Canal University: Petroleum Engineering Department, Suez, Egypt. Teaching Assistant (TA), and Researcher Short Appointments:
Dec. 2003- Aug. 2004 University of Bologna: Chemical, Mining and Environmental Engineering – DICMA, Viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna, Italy. Researcher: Research Fellowship. Research Areas include: NMR Characterization of Porous Media, Core Analysis, and Transport Phenomena in Porous Media IndustrialExperiences and Consulting
Sept. 1996 – Present Instructor and consultant for national and international Petroleum Companies.
April -Sept. 1996 Qarun Petroleum Company Western Desert – Egypt: Petroleum Production and Process Engineer. Field Engineering to monitor the producing wells and supervisor the separation processes in the field.

Research Interest:

  • Nanotechnology Application for EOR/IOR
  • Nanomaterials for Enhancing Mud Properties
  • Multiphase Flow Simulation in Pipes and Separation Devices,
  • Well Performance and Production Optimization,
  • Formation Damage and Remediation.
  • NMR Characterization of Porous Media

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Details

Start:
April 7
End:
April 11

Organizer

A. SALEM, P. Eng., Ph.D.

Venue

Hurghada
Hurghada, Egypt + Google Map
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