Midland College / PPDC Courses fall 2010

CO2 SCHOOL (Jointly sponsored by APTA and Midland College’s PPDC) Register Now
(PTRT 1091) – Class will be held January 2011!
January 24 – 27, 2011
Course# G094 102Q
Monday – Thursday
Location: Midland College PPDC Building, 105 W. Illinois Ave. (Midland, Texas)
Fee: $1,895; Out of State $1,920 (The fee covers the following: Course Instruction, Course Materials and One-Day Field Trip).
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
3.2 CEU’s
Instructors: Stephen Melzer; Robert Trentham, Ph.D.; Robert D. Kiker

Day One: Overview of the Elements of CO2 Flooding

• The History and Current Status of CO2 Flooding
• CO2 Sources, Natural and Anthropogenic (Man-Made), and the Properties of CO2
• The Convergence of Carbon Management and CO2 EOR
• CO2 Transportation and Injection – Pipelines, Trucking, Metering
• Reservoir Response – Miscible, Immiscible, Gravity Stable, Processing Rates, Examples
• CO2 Recycling, Plants & Processing – Dehydration, Sulfur/NGL Separation, Compression
• Downhole and Wellsite Equipment Needs
• Key Elements of Reservoir Geology
• Overview: The Business of CO2

Day Two: Evaluating a Candidate Flood, Reservoir Response and Flood Operations

• Flood Prospects: The Initial Evaluation and the Concept of Screening
• Flow Units and Reservoir Compartmentalization
• Modeling the Reservoir and Waterflood Response – Sweep Efficiency Concepts and Rules of Thumb
• Geophysical Techniques
• Normalizing Flood Response – Actual Examples
• CO2 Flood Response Modeling Techniques
• Economic Modeling
• Key Features of CO2 Flood Operations
• Downhole Considerations
• Operational Features Peculiar to CO2 – Beyond Waterflooding
• Surveillance and Flood Monitoring

Day Three: CO2 Facilities and Field Trip

Day Four: CO2 Production and The Business of CO2 Flooding