An intensive professional development training course on
Best Practices of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Projects
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR): A to Z of Best Practices
Why Choose Best Practices of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Projects Training Course?
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Projects Training is essential for professionals seeking to improve recovery efficiency, optimize mature fields, and apply advanced subsurface techniques that maximize long-term oil production. As global operators confront declining reservoir performance and increasing demand for higher recovery rates, the ability to apply best-practice EOR methods becomes a strategic advantage. This training course provides a clear understanding of how early EOR implementation, supported by robust reservoir data, can significantly enhance recovery outcomes in both new and mature fields.
During this Enhanced Oil Recovery Training Course, participants gain a structured, integrated view of waterflooding, chemical, miscible, and thermal EOR processes. The course highlights how each method aligns with reservoir characteristics, fluid behavior, and operational constraints, while demonstrating the real-world results achieved across global EOR projects. Through field case studies, participants examine success and failure scenarios, understanding the technical, economic, and reservoir-specific factors that shape EOR decision-making.
This Best Practices of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Projects Training Course also provides essential knowledge of screening criteria, laboratory requirements, and simulation workflows. Participants explore how to evaluate reservoirs for EOR suitability, how to interpret SCAL/RCAL data, and how to apply mobility ratio and capillary number concepts to optimize displacement efficiency. By the end of the course, attendees will be better prepared to apply EOR best practices and contribute to improved reservoir performance across a wide range of development environments.
What are the Goals?
This Enhanced Oil Recovery Training Course aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of major EOR processes and how they are selected, designed, and applied in real field conditions. The training focuses on reservoir characterization, screening techniques, and the practical factors required to maximize recovery efficiency.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand and apply the full range of EOR processes
- Conduct reservoir characterization and screen fields for EOR suitability
- Use mobility ratio and capillary number concepts to improve oil displacement
- Evaluate chemical EOR methods including polymer, AP, and ASP technologies
- Assess miscible and thermal EOR techniques and their field applications
- Interpret global EOR case studies to support decision-making
- Recognize uncertainties, limitations, and operational challenges in EOR projects
Who is this Training Course for?
This Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Projects Training Course is designed for professionals involved in reservoir development, field operations, and subsurface engineering. Whether supporting new development plans or optimizing mature assets, the course benefits individuals who require a solid grounding in EOR techniques.
This training course will greatly benefit:
- Petroleum, production, and reservoir engineers
- Processing and multidisciplinary engineers
- Geologists and petrophysicists
- Engineers new to the oil and gas profession
- Professionals seeking foundational knowledge of EOR technologies
- Technical teams involved in screening, planning, or applying EOR processes
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This Enhanced Oil Recovery Training Course uses a combination of proven adult-learning techniques to ensure practical understanding and long-term retention. The sessions are designed to create an interactive and collaborative environment where participants can explore real-world EOR challenges.
Training delivery includes:
- Instructor-led presentations on EOR concepts and field applications
- Class exercises focused on mobility ratio, screening criteria, and design steps
- Field case analysis from global chemical, miscible, and thermal EOR projects
- Industry videos illustrating EOR operations and simulation workflows
- Hands-on activities supporting understanding of reservoir data and EOR design
These methods ensure participants gain both theoretical knowledge and practical insight into applying EOR best practices.
The Course Content
- Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
- Reservoir concepts, RCAL, SCAL and fluid properties for EOR
- Screening criteria and mechanisms of different EOR methods
- How to maximize oil recovery using mobility ratio and capillary number
- Limitations, challenges, uncertainties and problems of different EOR methods
- Reservoir concepts, main rock and fluid properties for EOR
- Routine and Special Core Analysis (RCAL & SCAL)
- Five different reservoir fluids and downhole sampling tools
- Detailed reservoir fluid studies
- Different tools for downhole fluid sampling
- Reservoir characterization techniques for EOR methods
- Water flooding: design requirement, frontal displacement theory
- Classification and screening of different chemical EOR methods
- Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties and degradation
- Alkaline/polymer (AP) and ASP flooding: process and limitations
- Three actual field results: Daqing (China), Kentucky (USA), Norne Field (Norway)
- Miscible gas EOR: CO2 and Nitrogen injection methods
- Determination of minimum miscibility pressure (MMP)
- Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding processes
- Carbon dioxide field selection and screening application
- Current industry simulators for CO2 process
- Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam injection
- Industry simulators for steam EOR methods
- Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
- In- situ combustion method: wet and dry applications
- Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and CAPRI processes
- Microbial EOR, Enzyme EOR, and Low Salinity Water (LSW)
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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