Engineering and Maintenance
Advanced Steam Injection Processes and Oil Operator

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Advanced Steam Injection Processes and Oil Operator Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Review and practice of Steam Injection processes.
- Use and practice of Steam Thermal tables to calculate the injected energy in a steam
- Injection well.
- Steam flood Temperature and Saturation Profiles
- Steam Injection Mechanisms
- Cycle Steam Injection Processes
- Criteria for evaluating Steam Injection Prospects
- Estimated Heat Loss as function of depth
- Steam Injection Project Planning
- Economic of steam injection
- Water Treatment for Steam Generation/Water Chemistry
- Oilfield Steam Generator Water Quality Requirements
- Steam Generation
- Surface Steam Quality Measurement Concept and Methods
- Thermal well Completion Practices
- Thermal Cementing Practices
Who Should Attend?
- This course is designed for Petroleum Production and Reservoir Engineers , Oil operator and their
- supervisors; Chemical Engineers Associated with crude oil production in areas of high
- Viscosity. Technical field personnel and services companies representatives to obtain or
- increase the understanding of the overall concepts and principles of Steam Injection
- Processes.
Course Outlines:
Fundamental of Steam Injection Processes
- Basic of Steam Injection
- Steam Quality
- Steam Injection Process
- Steam Injection Process Mechanisms
- Steam Distillation
- Gas Stripping
- In situ Solvent Drive
- Viscosity reduction
- Thermal Expansion
- Solution Gas Drive
- Gravity Segregation
- Emulsion Drive
- Cycle Steam Injection
- Process Description
- Mechanisms of Cycle Steam Process
- References
- Criteria for Evaluating Steam Injection Prospects
- Introduction
- Rock and Fluid Properties
- Pay Zone Thickness
- Depth and Reservoir Pressure
- Permeability and Transmissibility
- Stratification
- Anisotropy
- Gas Cap or Aquifer
- Dip Angle
- Porosity
- Oil Saturation
- Clay Content
- Crude Oil Characteristics
- Gravity
- Viscosity
- Field History and Status
- References
Project Planning
- Introduction
- Reservoir Selection
- Depth
- Oil in Place
- Reservoir Segregation and in-homogeneities
- Preliminary Evaluation
- Laboratory Analysis
- Comprehensive Investigation
- Comprehensive Performance Investigation
- Comparison with Conventional Practices
- Pilot Test
- Summary
- References
- Economic Of Steam Injection
- Introduction
- Economic Factors in steam Injection Operation
- Estimation of Economically recoverable Oil
- Stream Injection Project cost
- Cost Estimate
- Development Cost
- Well Cost
- Water Treatment
- Summary
- References
Water Treatment for Steam Generation
- Water for Steam Generation
- Water Treatment Consideration
- Total Hardness
- Alkalinity
- Oxygen