APTA’S CO2 & ROZ 4-DAY School Curriculum
The course is open to International attendees and space is limited to the first 40 registrations.
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: The Business Side of CO2 Flooding, Understanding the ROZ and the Latest in Horizontal Well Depressuring of the Upper ROZ (DUROZ)
· 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