Polymer Flooding Essentials

10:01 Hours
The Polymer Flooding Essentials course offers a comprehensive and detailed understanding of polymer flooding techniques for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It covers the entire implementation workflow from field selection to full field deployment, including candidate ranking, polymer selection, laboratory testing, simulation, pilot design, and monitoring. The course addresses both technical and economic aspects as well as environmental considerations like carbon footprint reduction. Participants will gain actionable insights to accelerate field roll-out of polymer flooding projects and improve oil recovery efficiency. The course is suitable for professionals at fundamental, intermediate, and advanced levels across reservoir, production, and development disciplines.

Who Should Take This Course
• Oil and gas field development professionals
• EOR project managers and technical advisors
• Reservoir engineers and production specialists
• Petroleum engineering students and researchers

What You Will Learn
• Polymer flooding implementation workflow
• Field and reservoir screening techniques
• Polymer selection and laboratory evaluation
• Economic and environmental impact assessments

Why This Course Works
• Address challenges of reservoir heterogeneity
• Optimize project economics early in field life
• Reduce energy use and CO₂ emissions in production
• Improve oil recovery beyond primary and secondary methods

01-00 – Introduction (4 min.) 
01-01 – Current Status of Oil Production (23 min.)

02-01 – Oil Recovery Mechanisms (7 min.)
02-02 – Polymer Flooding – A Practical Overview (10 min.)
02-03 – Benefits of Polymer Flooding (7 min.)

03-01 – Mechanisms Of Polymer Flooding (10 min.)
03-02 – Video – Crossflow (4 min.)
03-03 – Video – Post-Flush (9 min.)

04-01 – Chemistries & Product Forms (11 min.)
04-02 – Viscosity & Rheology (6 min.)
04-03 – Polymer Degradations (9 min.)
04-04 – Important Considerations (5 min.)

05-01 – Where It Applies (14 min.)
05-02 – When It Applies (18 min.)

06-01 – Typical Workflows & Past Failures (21 min.)
06-02 – Goals And Metrics (5 min.)
06-03 – Area and Well Selection (18 min.)
06-04 – Analysis and Baseline (14 min.)
06-05 – Choosing a Viscosity (5 min.)

07-01 – Overview Of Economics (23 min.)

08-01 – Polymer Selection & Screening (19 min.)
08-02 – Polymer Evaluation – Rheology (26 min.)
08-03 – Polymer Degradation (6 min.)
08-04 – Polymer Characterization In Porous Media (15 min.)
08-05 – Propagation (24 min.)
08-06 – Retention (13 min.)
08-07 – Summary on Corefloods (9 min.)
08-08 – Conclusions On Laboratory Testing (12 min.)

09-01 – EOR Simulation Stages & Tools (26 min.)
09-02 – Modeling Tips (16 min.)

10-01 – Equipment, Facilities & Operations (21 min.)

11-01 – Monitoring – Injection (24 min.)
11-02 – Monitoring – Production (4 min.)
11-03 – Field Examples (15 min.)

12-01 – Water-Cut Variations (12 min.)
12-02 – Pressure & Oil-Cut Variations (10 min.)
12-03 – When To Stop Polymer Injection (11 min.)

13-01 – Injectivity (26 min.)

14-01 – Production Challenges (17 min.)

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