N956 Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
N956 Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
This course provides clear, concise and practical information for understanding, simulating and implementing carbon dioxide recovery projects. Case studies are used to demonstrate a variety of evaluation and predictive techniques using experimental, analytical and numerical methods. Operational aspects including transportation, injection, separation, reinjection and corrosion are discussed.
A three-day classroom course, with time equally divided among lectures, case studies and computer-based practical exercises.
Participants will learn to:
The course will help engineers understand, simulate and practice the major enhanced oil recovery techniques. The course involves projects that are designed to practice the oil recovery techniques using analytical, statistical and numerical simulation models. The numerical approaches are using CMG GEM (equation-of-state compositional simulator), and STARS (three-phase multi-component thermal simulator).
Topics Covered
1. Introduction
2. CO2 Process Facilities
3. CO2 Injection Considerations
Fundamentals - Immiscible Oil and Gas Displacement
4. Fundamentals - Miscible Oil and Gas Displacement
5. Miscible Gas Injection Methods
CO2 Injection Methods
6. Laboratory Tests for Gas Injection
7. Reservoir Simulation CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
8. CO2 Injection into Unconventional Resources
9. Environmental Considerations into CO2 Injection
10. Future of EOR and CO2 Applications
The course is designed for mid to senior level engineers as well as engineering managers looking for a detailed understanding of CO2 processes.
A familiarity with reservoir engineering concepts, basic EOR processes and phase behavior is assumed, as presented in N980 (Petroleum Reservoir Fluids) and N987 (Applied Reservoir Engineering).
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Background
Dr. Yucel Akkutlu is Rob L. Adams ’40 Professor in Petroleum Engineering and William Keeler faculty fellow at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He previously worked as a faculty for the University of Oklahoma, USA, and University of Alberta, Canada. He is a chemical engineer and received Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in petroleum reservoir engineering, petrophysics, and physical sciences.
His research focuses on characterization and exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources, enhanced oil recovery, and oilfield chemistry. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, six book chapters, and has four patents. He is the author of “Nano-confined Petroleum Recovery from Source Rocks,” which will be published in 2020. He has received over $3 million in external research funding during the last 10 years from sources such as the US Department of Energy (DOE), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the unconventional oil and gas industry.
He is a distinguished member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was the executive editor of the SPE Journal 2013-2016. He was 2014-15 SPE distinguished lecturer. He received 2020 SPE International Lester C. Uren award, 2017 TAMU-Association of Former Students teaching award, 2016 TAMU-Association of Former Students distinguished achievement award, and 2015 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond memorial award. Akkutlu served in various SPE, EAGE, and NSERC committees.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
MSc University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
BSc Hacettepe University - Chemical Engineering
Courses Taught
N274: Unconventional Resource Engineering for Geoscientists
N279: Geological Characterization and Engineering of Unconventional Oil and Gas Shales: Classroom and Field Seminar (Oklahoma, USA)
N484: Resource Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Plays
N956: Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
N973: Reservoir Engineering for Unconventional Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs
N989: Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs
RM01: Fundamentals of Unconventional Reservoir Engineering for Earth Scientists
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