SPE Continuing Education Class (click here for registration link)

Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals

9-10 June 2015  ::   0800–1700

Casper Petroleum Club

1301 Wilkins Circle

Casper, Wyoming

This course teaches an integrated version of the basics of waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), illustrating the connection of each process to a few fundamental principles. It reviews the specifics of thermal and solvent EOR by relating basic principles to the results of cases from the field.

Topics Include:

• Definitions of EOR and polymer flooding
• Fundamentals of displacement
• Phase behavior, micellar-polymer flooding, and chemical methods
• Thermal flooding and the basics of solvent flooding

Learning Level - Intermediate

Course Length - 2 Days

Why Attend?  Every oilfield eventually relies on some form of enhanced oil recovery. Some require it from the start. This information can be crucial for continued productivity.

Who Should Attend?  This course is designed for engineers with at least a bachelor’s degree in petroleum or chemical engineering. All other engineers, mathematicians, and physicists with at least a bachelor’s degree and some experience in reservoir engineering or numerical simulation can benefit from this course.

Instructor

Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds BS and PhD degrees from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively. Lake is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers, four textbooks, and the editor of three bound volumes. He has served on the SPE Board of Directors, as a Distinguished Lecturer, won the 1996 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal of the AIME, the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Award in 2002, and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineers since 1997.