Basic Heavy Oil Recovery Course
July 14th to 18th 2014
Calgary
Course introduction
This course is designed to enhance the understanding of thermal recovery methods and provide basic skills for a reservoir engineer to work in future thermal recovery projects. The course material covers the fundamental theory of thermal sciences, comprehensive illustration of various thermal recovery mechanism, and practical field application cases. Hands-on calculation exercises are included in most of the sessions. Prior knowledge of thermal recovery methods and reservoir simulation is not required. The 5 days course outlines can be described as
Day 1: Worldwide heavy oil distribution map, Heavy oil thermal property, Heavy oil rock and fluid property relationship, Latent heat and enthalpy, Steam property, Thermal conductivity, Heat capacity, Fundamental of heat transfer (Heat conduction, heat convection, thermal radiation), Surface pipe line heat losses, Wellbore heat losses, Over and under-burden heat losses.
Day 2: Fundamentals of Cyclic Stimulation, Steam flooding, In-situ combustion, SAGD
Day 3: Details of SAGD variation processes, i.e. THAI, LASER, SAS.
Day 4: Introduction of reservoir simulation, how to use reservoir simulation results to optimize SAGD operation and other types of thermal recovery methods.
Day 5: Reviews, question and answer session
About the instructor
Dr. HoJeen Su have worked for Chevron, Saudi Aramco, and Kuwait oil companies for thirty years. His experiences includes reservoir simulation studies, reservoir simulator development, horizontal well design and performance analyses, reservoir management, and research in ensemble-based optimization. In addition, he had extensive experience in thermal conductivity measurement, cyclic stimulation, steam flooding, and SAGD. Dr.Su holds a Ph.D. in thermal sciences from University of California, Berkeley.