Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Training Course

Course Category : Project Management

This programme develops an understanding of enhanced oil recovery as a strategic approach to improving recovery factors, focusing on key EOR techniques, systematic field screening, and feasibility and risk assessment to ensure practical and effective implementation.
Duration: 5 Training Days
Level: Advanced.

Starts On

21 - December - 2026

Ends On

25 - December - 2026

Location

Azerbaijan - Baku

Language

English

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Targeted Audience

  • Reservoir engineers
  • Production engineers
  • Petroleum engineers
  • Petrophysicists
  • Geologists
  • Geoscientists
  • Professionals interested in enhanced oil recovery processes and technologies

Targeted Skills

  • Differentiating EOR classifications, techniques, and recovery mechanisms
  • Performing systematic field screening and selecting suitable EOR options
  • Analysing Mobility Ratio (M) and Capillary Number (Nc) to improve recovery performance
  • Developing conceptual EOR project designs integrated with existing operations
  • Evaluating EOR project economics, risks, and environmental/regulatory considerations

Expected Outcomes

  • Explain reservoir and fluid fundamentals and why conventional recovery is limited
  • Apply the generic EOR workflow to structure data requirements and technical decisions
  • Perform field screening and select EOR options based on reservoir, fluid, and operational criteria
  • Evaluate thermal, gas, and chemical EOR options and link them to recovery mechanisms
  • Use Mobility Ratio (M) and Capillary Number (Nc) concepts to enhance recovery factor
  • Assess emerging techniques (MEOR, enzyme, electric, EM-EOR, and hybrid methods) and their applicability
  • Develop an implementable EOR concept including operational, economic, environmental, and risk considerations

Training Topics Index

  • Reservoir rock, cap rock, and source rock fundamentals
  • Traps, petroleum system elements, and reservoir architecture
  • Core reservoir properties relevant to recovery
  • Oil and gas properties and production implications
  • Primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery comparison

  • EOR definition and when it becomes a strategic option
  • Generic EOR workflow and decision pathway
  • Main EOR categories and recovery mechanisms
  • Key limitations and operational/engineering challenges
  • Screening criteria and practical exercises for candidate fields

  • Chemical EOR fundamentals and rock–fluid interactions
  • Gas and miscible EOR fundamentals and miscibility requirements
  • Thermal EOR fundamentals and viscosity reduction mechanisms
  • Maximising recovery using Mobility Ratio (M) and Capillary Number (Nc)
  • Case studies on advanced thermal EOR applications and success indicators

  • MEOR principles, applicability, and constraints
  • Enzyme methods mechanisms and suitability conditions
  • Seismic/electric approaches concept, requirements, and limitations
  • EM-EOR fundamentals and potential applications
  • Chemical–thermal hybrid methods and selection logic

  • Cyclic and continuous steam injection design considerations
  • SAGD conceptual design and success conditions
  • In-situ combustion forward and backward methods
  • THAI and CAPRI concept, opportunities, and risk boundaries
  • Steam–CO₂ hybrid EOR fundamentals, field use, and economics linkage