APTAPB Training // Midland’s CO2 and ROZ School (Aug 23 -26)
Midland’s CO2 and ROZ School (Aug 23 -26)
Jointly Sponsored by APTA (APTAPB.org), Melzer Consulting (melzerconsulting.com) and Midland College’s Petr Professional Dev Center – PPDC (https://ce.midland.edu/ppdc/index.php?option=com_cexpress&view=course&id=443&Itemid=147)
Register online at
www.midland.edu/ppdc or call: 432-683-2832
Location:
Midland College PPDC
105 W. Illinois
Midland, Texas 79701
Fee:
In-State, $1,895
Out-of-State, $1,920
Course #’s:
In-State:
Out-of-State:
3.2 CEU’s and 32 PDH’s
Petroleum Professional Development Center
221 N. Main Street
Midland, Texas 79701
Office Phone: (432) 683-2832
Fax: (432) 686-8089
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APTA, applying petroleum knowledge to the world.
Midland’s CO2 & ROZ School
From the World Leaders in CO2 Enh Oil Recovery & Residual Oil Exploitation via Horizontal Drilling
Jointly Sponsored by APTA and Midland College’s PPDC
Anyone interested in Residual Oil Zones or involved in CO2 Oil Recovery Operations or implementation should plan to attend this course!
The course is open to International attendees and space is limited to the first 40 registrations.
August 23-26, 2016
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday-Friday
Instructors: L. Stephen Melzer, Melzer Consulting; Robert Trentham, Ph.D., UTPB/CEED; Ron Wackowski, APTA and David Vance, Arcadis US
CO2 and ROZ SCHOOL
Course Schedule and Curriculum
Day One: Overview of the Elements of CO2 Flooding
- CO2 EOR Best Practices and ROZ Exploitation :and the Latest in ROZ Understanding & Reservoir Depressuring (DUROZ)
- Overview of EOR Techniques and the Evolution of CO2 Flooding
- CO2 Demand, CO2 Sources, Natural and Anthropogenic (Man-Made), and the Properties of CO2
- CO2 Transportation and Injection – Pipelines, Trucking, Metering
- Reservoir and Production Practices – Miscible, Immiscible, Gravity Stable, Processing Rates, Examples
- Downhole and Wellsite Equipment Needs
- CO2 Recycling, Plants & Processing – Dehydration, Sulfur/NGL Separation, Compression
- Key Elements of Reservoir Geology
- Overview: The Business of CO2
Day Two: Evaluating a Candidate Flood, Reservoir Response and Flood Operations
- Flood Prospects: The Initial Evaluation and the Concept of Screening
- Flow Units and Reservoir Compartmentalization
- Reservoir Characterization
- Geophysical Techniques
- Modeling the Reservoir and Waterflood Response – Sweep Efficiency Concepts and Rules of Thumb
- Normalizing Flood Response – Actual Examples
- Optimizing the Flood, Reservoir Surveillance, Pattern Balancing, Recognizing and Remediating Reservoir Sweep Problems
- CO2 Flood Simulation and Response Modeling Techniques
- Key Features of CO2 Flood Operations Operational Features Peculiar to CO2 – Beyond Waterflooding
Day Three: CO2 Facilities and Field Trip
- Dehydration Processes
- Compression Facilities
- Natural Gas Liquids Removal
- Integrated Plants
- Full Stream (Gas) Re-injection
- Field Visit to a CO2 Flood and Facility
- Tour of CO2 Production and Injection Facilities and Recycle/Processing Facilities
Day Four: CO2 Production and the Business of CO2 Flooding
- Land/Mineral Considerations
- Fundamentals of CO2 Supply Contracts
- Parametric Sensitivities & RoRs
- Permian Basin and an Update on Current ROZ Research and Field Project Results
- A View at the Future – Vertical Profile Expansion (Case Histories-based) and ROZ “Greenfield” Developments, Reservoir Depressuring
- A Detailed Look at the Science of Anaerobic Bacteria on Rocks and Fluids in the ROZ
- Update on Current ROZ Field Project Results
- Latest on the PB ROZ Resource Assessment
- End of Course