EOR Techniques

1.1 Course Number: PE431

1.2 Contact Hours: 2- 0- 0 Credits: 6

1.3 Semester-offered: 4th Year-Odd

1.4 Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Geology, Reservoir Engineering, Production Engineering

1.5 Syllabus Committee Member: Dr. Tushar Sharma, Dr. Shivanjali Sharma, Dr. Amit Kumar

2. Objective: This course will enable upcoming professionals devise strategies to improve
oil recovery from marginal oilfields, while developing chemical/gas/thermal injection as
an economically viable technology for hydrocarbon recovery.

3. Course Content:

Unit-wise distribution of content and number of lectures

Unit Topics Sub-topic Lectures

1 Introduction to General classification and description of EOR processes,
EOR Techniques Need for EOR, recovery methods, principles of EOR, 2
Methods of enhance oil recovery, practical considerations of
an EOR process
2 Chemical EOR Polymer flooding and its mechanism, surfactant flooding and
its mechanism, phase behavior of micro-emulsions, phase 8
behavior and IFT, wettability alterations, alkali flooding.
3 Miscible EOR Miscible displacement processes: Mechanism of miscible
displacement, phase behavior related to miscibility, high 8
pressure gas injection, enriched gas injection, LPG flooding,
carbon dioxide flooding, alcohol flooding.
4 Thermal EOR Thermal recovery processes: Mechanism of thermal
flooding, hot water flooding, cyclic steam injection, 7
estimation of oil recovery from steam drive, in-situ
combustion, air requirement for in-situ combustion.
5 Other EOR Microbial EOR 1
Total 26

4. Readings:
4.1 Textbook:
1) Enhanced Oil Recovery-I, fundamentals and analyses, Erle.C.Donaldson,
George.V.Chillingarian
2) Enhanced Oil Recovery, F. John Fayers
 3) Lake, L. (1991) Enhanced oil recovery, PennWell publishing company.
4) A Realistic look at Enhanced Oil Recovery, S.M Farouq, S.Thomas, Scientia Iranica,
Vol.1,No.3, Sharif University of Technology, October 1994.

4.2 Reference books:

1) Carcoana, A. (1992) Applied enhanced oil recovery, Prentice Hall.
2) James, G. (2009) Enhanced recovery methods for heavy oil and Tar sands, Gulf
publishing company.
3) Ramirez, W. F. (1987) Application of optimal control theory to enhanced oil recovery,
Elsevier publications.

5 Outcome of the Course:

On successful completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
1. Categorize different EOR process
2. Plan the EOR technique based on the reservoir properties