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Enhanced Oil Recovery

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 541-3019/02
Abbreviation ZVLU
Course title Enhanced Oil Recovery
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Michal Matloch Porzer, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction
2. Oil and gas reservoirs, structure and formation
3. Reservoir parameters
4. Reservoir and recovery fluids
5. Secondary methods of oil recovery
6. Introduction to enhanced oil recovery
7. Surfactants
8. Polymers
9. Thermic methods I.
10. Thermic metods II.
11. Modification of reservoir parameters
12. Smart production fluids
13. Gas injection methods

Literature

BOBERG, T.C. Thermal Methods of Oil Recovery. Wiley. 1988. ISBN 978-0471633006 .
CRAIG, F.F. The Reservoir Engineering Aspects Of Waterflooding. SPE. 1993. ISBN 978-0-89520-202-4 .
SHENG, James. Enhanced oil recovery field case studies. Amsterdam: Gulf Professional Publishing, [2013]. ISBN 978-0123865458 .
WILLHITE, P. Waterflooding. SPE. 1986. ISBN 978-1555630058 .

Advised literature

GREEN, Don W. a G. Paul WILLHITE. Enhanced oil recovery. Second edition. Richardson, Texas, USA: Society of Petroleum Engineers, [2018]. ISBN 978-1613994948 .
ALVARADO, V. a E. MANRIQUE. Enhanced oil recovery: field planning and development strategies. Burlington, MA: Gulf Professional Pub./Elsevier, c2010. ISBN 978-1856178556.
LAKE, Larry W. Fundamentals of enhanced oil recovery. [Second edition]. Richardson, Texas: Society of Petroleum Engineers, [2014]. ISBN 978-1613993286 .
SORBIE, K.S. Polymer-improved oil recovery. Springer Netherlands. 1991. ISBN 978-0-216-92693-6 .