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Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Course Code :
PE 503
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
3.00 Hours
Department :
Department of Petroleum Engineering

Instructor information :

Title:Teaching Assistant
Name: Ahmed Mohamed Fathy Mohamed ABDELGHAFFAR
Office hours:-Hours

Area of Study :

The main objective of the course is to acquaint the students with the secondary recovery methods and their applications and is to give a solid background to the students on course of water flooding. Moreover, it provides a complete review of all aspects of water flood schemes being the most proven, lowest cost, and applicable to various types of reservoirs.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Oil recovery by water injection. Effects of wettability, capillary pressure, relative permeability, mobility ratio on displacement, sweep, and recovery efficiencies. Piston-like and Buckley- Leverett models. Fractional flow and frontal advance equation. Oil recovery prediction methods for linear and pattern water floods in single and multi-layered reservoirs.

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Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:

1-	Describe recovery expectations from reservoirs under primary depletion or pressure maintenance utilizing water or immiscible gas injection
2-	Describe reasons and causes for less than theoretically possible recovery
3-	Describe appropriate methods (with their target applications, benefits, and limitations) for improving oil recovery from reservoirs under primary depletion or pressure maintenance utilizing water or immiscible gas injection
4-	Select mechanisms responsible for recovery improvement in various IOR

b. Intellectual Skills:

1-	Select the suitable flooding patterns for water flooding operations
2-	Calculate the overall recovery efficiency: displacement, areal, and vertical efficiencies
3-	Predict the recovery performance for layered reservoir
4-	Compare EOR methods using screening criteria

c. Professional and Practical Skills:

1-	Apply appropriate methods (with their target applications, benefits, and limitations) for improving oil recovery.
2-	Select a chemical (surfactant, polymer/micellar) etc. for chemical flooding, on the basis of their known properties
3-	Select the suitable flooding patterns for water flooding operations

d. General and Transferable Skills:

1-	Collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
2-	Acquire entrepreneurial skills.
3-	Refer to relevant literature.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Course topics and contents:

Topic	No. of hours	Lecture	Tutorial/Practical
Introduction to secondary recovery and EOR Screening criteria	10	6	4
Secondary Oil Recovery: Water Flooding	10	6	4
Overall Recovery Efficiency	8	6	2
Displacement Efficiency, Buckley and Leverett	10	6	4
Areal Sweep Efficiency	8	4	4
Vertical Sweep Efficiency	8	5	3
Methods of Predicting Recovery Performance for Layered Reservoirs	9	6	3
Chemical EOR, Thermal EOR, and Miscible/Immscible EOR	6	3	3
Technical Challenges and Futures Techniques	6	3	3

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Teaching And Learning Methodologies:

Teaching and learning methods
Interactive lecturing
Problem solving
Experiential Learning

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Course Assessment :

Methods of assessment	Relative weight %	Week No.	Assess What
Assignment	10.00
Final Exam	40.00
Mid- Exam	30.00
Participation	10.00
Quizzes	10.00

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

Books:

Book	Author	Publisher

Recommended books :

James J. Sheng, Ph. D.: “Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery, Theory and Practice,” Gulf Professional Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, Elsevier Inc., 2011. 2. Teknica Petroleum Services ltd :“Enhanced Oil Recovery,” Calgary, Alberta, 2001. 3. Aurel Carcoana : “Applied enhanced oil recovery,” Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992. 4. Erle C. Donaldson, George V. Chilingarian, and The Fu Yen: “Enhanced Oil Recovery II, Processes and Operations,” Elsevier science Publishers B.V., 1989. 5. Van Poollen, H. K., and Associates : “Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery,” Penn Well Publishing company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1980. 6. Marcel Latil, et. Al. : “Enhanced Oil Recovery,” Institut Francais du Petrole, 1980. (Translated from the French bu Paul ELLIS)