Price: USD 1,950
Instructor led live virtual classroom online. Classes may be individual or in group.
- Duration / Course length: 5 Days
- Timings: Flexible
Course details
Course OverviewHeavy oil is highly viscous, and hence, does not flow easily. The characteristic features of heavy oil are low API gravity (less than 25 API) and high viscosity (> 10s of cP), low hydrogen-to-carbon ratios, small percentages of volatile and easily distillable hydrocarbons, high content of asphaltenes and significant quantities of oxygen-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-bearing compounds, and heavy metals are also frequently minor components of these oils.
Course Outlines
- Introduction
- Conventional oils & their future
- The nature of heavy oil
- Global heavy oil development (onshore and offshore)
- Industry trends & challenges
- Overview of heavy oil geology
- Heavy oil sampling
- Heavy oil phase behavior and laboratory measurements methodologies
- Heavy oil workflows
- Recovery processes overview
- The primary recovery processes - Horizontal and Multi Lateral Wells and Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS)
- The non thermal recovery processes - Waterflood, Chemical Flood and Vapor Extraction (VAPEX)
- Thermal recovery processes - Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS), Steam Flood, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), Fire Flood/In Situ Combustion
- Newly developed recovery processes - Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI), THAI with solid catalyst (CAPRI), Steam Solvent Based Hybrid processes
- Field examples
- Heavy oil production, completion overview
- Lifting methods - Gas Lift, Sucker Rod Pumps, Progressive Cavity Pumps (PCP) and Top Drive PCPs, Hydraulic Pumps, Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP), High Temperature ESP (Red Hot Pumps).
- Well completions
- Sand management strategy and sand control techniques
- Field Examples
- Basic heavy oil production and processing schemes
- Emulsion control and treatment
- Facilities design and operations for heavy oil processing
- Onshore and offshore heavy oil loading systems
- Heavy oil transportation and storage options
- Flow assurance in heavy oil production and transportation
Who Should Attend ?
- This introductory course on heavy oil exploitation is designed to benefit multidisciplinary asset teams including geologist, geophysicist, reservoir, drilling, production, completion and facilities engineers. This course will also benefit all managers and department heads.
Job roles this course is suitable for:
production engineers , facilities engineers , completion engineersAbout ITCgroup
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