Polymer Flooding Essentials Course

Antoine Thomas

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

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Course contents

    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