PEEG 731 Chemical Flooding
This course will cover concepts and principles of different chemical flooding methods including polymer flooding, surfactant flooding, alkaline flooding, alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding and others. The course is focused on issues related to these technique including laboratory, numerical simulation, and field applications. Case studies will also be presented to support the latter three aspects along with exercises. In addition, fractional flow theory will be utilized to predict the behavior of these chemical flooding methods. The new advances in these methods will be discussed as the oil industry has expanded its activities in this area tremendously all around the world. Moreover, students will learn how to use a commercial reservoir simulator to set up, simulate, interpret, and visualize a selected chemical flooding method as well as to perform simple sensitivity analysis on related oil recovery.
Distribution
3-0-3