EOR Training CouRSE

May 1, 2025 • PTRC Training Centre

*subject to change without notice


Course Description

After primary and secondary recovery process, up to 90 % original oil in place (OOIP) can be left behind in the reservoirs, which presents a great opportunity, and also challenge, for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. This one-day EOR course is aiming at providing some solid understanding on residual oil trapping mechanisms and corresponding recovery mechanisms from EOR. The course covers three major EOR processes as well as some advanced and innovative EOR technologies, with the focus on their applicability on different oil reservoirs in the Williston Basin. Detailed EOR evaluation strategy from laboratory engineering design to field implementation will be demonstrated with several EOR field projects in the Williston Basin. After lectures, a one-hour laboratory tour is provided to witness laboratory operations for routine/special core analysis and EOR feasibility study.

 

Course Outline:

  • Overview of oil recovery stages (primary, secondary, and EOR)
  • Trapping mechanisms for residual oils and recovery mechanisms for EOR
  • Screening criteria and recovery mechanisms for different EOR methods
  • Gas, chemical, and thermal EOR techniques for various oil reservoirs.
  • Other advanced/specialized EOR Processes: nano, low-salinity, electric heating, emulsion flooding etc
  • Case studies for several commercial EOR projects in Williston Basin ― from laboratory evaluation to field implementation
  • Geological factors in affecting/determining successful implementation of an EOR project 
  • Tour to a state-of-the-art laboratory to demonstrate how an EOR feasibility study is conducted at the laboratory scale

 

Learning Level

  • Entry to Intermediate

Course Length

  • 1 Day - 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Fee

  • $500.00 (Early Bird ends Sunday, March 2, 2025)
  • $600.00 after March 2

meet the instructors

Peng (Mars) Luo, PhD, PEng, PGeo, 

Chief Scientist & Engineer

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

 

Mars has over 25 years of diverse research and work experience in petroleum engineering & geology, chemical engineering, and polymer science. His major areas of technical expertise include enhanced oil recovery technologies for conventional light/medium/heavy oil reservoirs and unconventional tight/shale oil reservoirs, gas/energy storage in geological formations, and renewable/sustainable energy development. He is a registered professional engineer and professional geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS), and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Regina.


Erik Nickel, M. Sc, P. Geo. 

Chief Operating Officer

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

 

Erik Nickel graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Geology in 1994 and obtained his Master of Science in geology from the University of Regina in 2008.  After a 5 year tour as a wellsite geological consultant, Erik spent 15 years as a research geologist with the petroleum geology branch of the Saskatchewan Geological Survey.  His research interests, while there, were primarily in the Mississippian carbonates of southeast Saskatchewan, performing some of the original Midale reservoir characterization for PTRC’s Weyburn project starting in 2001.  Erik also studied many other aspects of Saskatchewan’s petroleum and natural gas resources, most notably an extensive body of work on the geology of Bakken tight oil reservoirs.  Erik joined the PTRC in 2014 and is primarily responsible for the management and delivery of enhanced oil recovery research programs, including STEPS and HORNET, as well as managing the Centre’s carbon capture and storage project (Aquistore).


Dr. Farshid Torabi

Professor of Energy and Process Systems Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Regina

 

Dr. Farshid Torabi is a professor of Energy and Process Systems Engineering, at the University of Regina, Canada with research interests including (but not limited to) application of microfluidic and nano technologies to reservoir engineering and enhanced oil recovery processes, miscible and immiscible processes in conventional and unconventional reservoirs, 3-phase relative permeability measurements, waterflooding, polymer flooding, CSI, VAPEX, and drilling and well completion techniques. He holds B. Sc, M. Sc, and Ph.D. in Petroleum System Engineering. He has more than 10 years of extensive field and industry experience and is a professional member of Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).


Dr. Na (Jenna) Jia

Program Chair and Full Professor 

Energy Systems Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Regina

 

Dr. Na (Jenna) Jia is the Program Chair and full professor in the Program of Energy Systems Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina. Before she joined the University of Regina, Dr. Jia had worked for Schlumberger DBR Technology Center as a fluid analysis project leader for more than 9 years. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary, and a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Jia has more than 20 years of experience in formation characterization, petroleum fluid property analysis, multi-phase behavior study, enhanced oil recovery, and exploration and development of unconventional oil and gas resources. She is the flow assurance expert and has many years of experience in kinetic model development and reservoir simulation. Dr. Jia has more than 15+ years of teaching experience in thermodynamics, fluid analysis, phase behavior, and petroleum oil and gas production. She is a registered professional engineer in Saskatchewan and Alberta (APEGS and APEGA). Dr. Jia has more than 100+ journal and conference papers published as first author, corresponding author, or co-author.