PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND

Steam stimulation or steam flooding technology is undoubtedly the most effective enhanced oil recovery (Thermal Technique) currently in use since its advent in 1959, steam process have quickly gained recognition as most promising technological achievement, possessing a definite potential for economic development worldwide. Currently, steam stimulation and steam flood projects are responsible for approximately 80% of the Enhanced Oil Recovery production in the United States. This growth has occurred over the past three decades despite the fact that the performance of the process has proven sensitive to factors such as reservoir heterogeneity, adverse mobility ratios, gravity override and steam channeling.

Steam flooding is traditionally used to recover oil by injecting steam into heavy oil reservoirs to heat crude oil and allow for its extraction, mainly, it is considered an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method and is the main type of thermal stimulation of oil reservoirs and it is currently used to unlock producing potential of carbonate reservoirs. Recovery by steam flooding is commonly used in heavy oil reservoirs containing oil whose high viscosity is a limiting factor for achieving commercial oil producing rates. It has also been considered, however, as a method for recovering additional light oil.

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES

This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To:

›       Steam stimulation / steam flooding technology

›       The effects of steam flooding on enhanced oil recovery production

›       The impact of steam injection technology on heavy oil resources

›       The economic viability of steam stimulation/drive technology

›       Steam flood mechanisms

›       Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD)

›       Steam generation operations

›       The limitation on oil recovery through steam injection

›       Important reservoir and/or process parameters influencing the use and efficiency of steam operations

›       The overall effectiveness of a steam operation rate (the ratio of oil produced to steam injected)

›       New technological ideas and advances needed to extend the range of economically successful steam injection methods

›       The use of steam bearing additives in steam injection

›       How to increase of steam injectivity and improvement of oil productivity by using an additive in the program of steam stimulation flooding

›       Steam stimulated enhanced oil recovery by SPI 2400S

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES

›       Field Operators

›       Plant Operators

›       Sub center Operators

›       Production Engineers

›       Operations and Facilities Engineers

›       Petroleum Engineers

›       Production Managers and Field Production Supervisors

›       Surface Equipment Technicians

›       Technical or supervisory personnel who interact with field facility engineers

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION TO STEAM FLOODING

PURPOSE OF STEAM FLOODING

STEAM FLOOD MECHANISMS

›       Viscosity reduction

›       Thermal expansion

›       Steam distillation

STEAM ASSISTED GRAVITY DRAINAGE (SAGD)

STEAM GENERATION OPERATIONS

EOR STEAM GENERATORS

›       Feedwater pump and prime mover

›       Feedwater flow rate control

›       Feedwater preheater

›       Burners

›       Burner firing rate control

›       Fuel and cost

STEAM DISTRIBUTION & METERING

›       Generator efficiency

›       Pressure and heat loss

›       Flow rate control

›       Flow splitting

›       System optimization

RECOVERY EXPECTATIONS & PRODUCTION FORECAST

ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF STEAM STIMULATION

LIMITATION ON OIL RECOVERY THROUGH STEAM INJECTION

INSUFFICIENT THERMAL IMPACT

INJECTION RATE VERSUS HEAT LOSES

INJECTION PRESSURE VERSUS INJECTION RATE

THE USE OF STEAM BEARING ADDITIVES IN STEAM INJECTION

›       Interfacial tension reduction

›       Displacement efficiency

›       Injectivity

›       Steam channels creation

THE INJECTION OF A NON-CONDENSABLE GAS WITH STEAM

STEAM STIMULATED & ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY BY SPI 2400S

HSE STANDARDS & REGULATIONS

ADDITIONAL DETAILS