Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals - EORC

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Mechanisms for the formation of heavy oil; General phase behavior of hydrocarbons and heavy oil; Properties of heavy oil and rock physics analysis; Geophysical approaches to characterization of heavy oil reservoirs; Measuring and monitoring heavy oil properties; Methods of extraction of heavy oil (CHOPS, SAGD, etc.); Challenges for heavy oil production; Seismic monitoring of hot and cold heavy oil production; Optimization of Canadian heavy oil production through reservoir characterization; Environmental issues; Jeopardy exercises on each of these units

Characterization of natural fractures and fracture systems; Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and structure on fracture development; Detection and prediction of subsurface natural-fracture occurrence and intensity from cores and well logs; Fractured rock properties affecting reservoir performance; Classification of naturally-fractured reservoirs with reservoir examples and potential production problems; Naturally-fractures reservoirs: Fluid-flow, Well performance and well testing, Reservoir performance, Numerical Simulation; Geomechanics/fluid-flow; Behavior and Stimulation of naturally-fractured reservoirs; Effects of natural fractures on reservoir permeability anisotropy, drainage area and waterflood sweep efficiency