Disciplines: Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction | Reservoir

Instructor: Birol Dindoruk

Concept of gas injection and what miscibility means and not.

Gas flooding involves many aspects of engineering, from surface facilities to production engineering to reservoir engineering. There are also newer theories and their applications, especially in the context of miscibility development and assessment as summarized by Dindoruk et al. [3]. Some of the renewed momentum in gas flooding also comes from the potential for subsurface CO2 sequestration and other gases (H2,CH4, etc.) storage to lower the overall footprint of greenhouse gases. More than ever, there is a wider envelope of applications for petroleum engineers that includes coupled CO2 sequestration and geothermal energy production.

This class will focus on the key topics of gas injection processes that covers both EOR and as well as CO2 sequestration aspects, fundamentals, practical measurements and workflows.  In the class, we will emphasize use cases and various examples including experimental processes.  As the complexity of in-situ fluids and the reservoir conditions become more challenging, progress in the computational area is also being made. Therefore, complex fluids and their implications in the context of gas injection processes will be inherently part of this class. One of the new topics that we will also introduce is the use of data-centric/machine learning methods to estimate MMP as one of the key parameters of screening/design.