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.Read more...
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
Course contents
Chapter 1 - The Rising Relevance of EOR
- 01-00 - Introduction (4 min.) Sample Lesson
- 01-01 - Current Status of Oil Production (23 min.)
Chapter 2 - Polymer Flooding - Practical Overview
- 02-01 - Oil Recovery Mechanisms (7 min.)
- 02-02 - Polymer Flooding - A Practical Overview (10 min.)
- 02-03 - Benefits of Polymer Flooding (7 min.) Quiz
Chapter 3 - Polymer Flooding - The Mechanisms
- 03-01 - Mechanisms Of Polymer Flooding (10 min.)
- 03-02 - Video - Crossflow (4 min.)
- 03-03 - Video - Post-Flush (9 min.) Quiz
Chapter 4 - Polymer Flooding: Essential Know-Hows
- 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.) Quiz
Chapter 5 - Polymer Flooding: Applicability
- 05-01 - Where It Applies (14 min.)
- 05-02 - When It Applies (18 min.) Quiz
Chapter 6 - Field & Reservoir Screening
- 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.)
Chapter 7 - Basic Economics of Polymer Flooding
- 07-01 - Overview Of Economics (23 min.) Quiz
Chapter 8 - Laboratory Testing
- 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.) Quiz
Chapter 9 - Simulation
- 09-01 - EOR Simulation Stages & Tools (26 min.)
- 09-02 - Modeling Tips (16 min.) Quiz
Chapter 10 - Facilities & Operations
- 10-01 - Equipment, Facilities & Operations (21 min.)
Chapter 11 - Monitoring
- 11-01 - Monitoring - Injection (24 min.)
- 11-02 - Monitoring - Production (4 min.)
- 11-03 - Field Examples (15 min.) Quiz
Chapter 12 - Reservoir Responses
- 12-01 - Water-Cut Variations (12 min.)
- 12-02 - Pressure & Oil-Cut Variations (10 min.)
- 12-03 - When To Stop Polymer Injection (11 min.) Quiz
Chapter 13 - Injectivity
- 13-01 - Injectivity (26 min.) Quiz
Chapter 14 - Production Challenges
- 14-01 - Production Challenges (17 min.) Quiz