Course Description

Miscible gas injection must be performed at a high enough pressure to ensure miscibility between the injected gas and in situ oil. Miscibility is achieved when interfacial tension (IFT) between the aqueous and oleic phases is significantly reduced. The desired IFT reduction is typically from around 1 dyne/cm to 0.001 dyne/cm or less. This course covers the fundamentals of miscible gas injection enhanced oil recovery, the applications of scientific principles to reservoir fluid phase behavior and multiphase fluid flow in porous media. Also, it covers mathematical tools to help in the design and selection of gas injection enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and ability necessary to understand of the fundamentals of miscible gas injection enhanced oil recovery, the applications of scientific principles to reservoir fluid phase behavior and multiphase fluid flow in porous media. And necessary to the design and selection of gas injection EOR projects using mathematical tools

Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will have the knowledge about:

• Understand the miscible gas injection thermodynamics in EOR
• Apply principles of phase and volumetric behavior of reservoir fluids
• Understand reservoir fluid trapping and mobilization mechanisms
• Design a laboratory protocol for a successful gas injection project
• Use numerical reservoir simulators to validate laboratory data 
• Evaluate the miscible gas injection EOR processes    

Who Can Benefit

Reservoir Engineers working in EOR projects