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

In 1848, after years of practicing medicine with herbal remedies learned from Indians and trading with the Indians on the Tombigbee, he moved to Texas. He purchased 1,828 acres of the fertile prairie land he had seen on his Texas visit thirteen years before. Lincecum, Sarah, and their surviving ten children, a number of grandchildren, and ten slaves arrived in Long Point on his fifty-fifth birthday.

In Texas Lincecum continued to practice medicine, made geological explorations, assembled a plant collection including 500 species with medicinal properties, kept a meteorological journal that charted drought cycles, and observed and recorded the daily activities of insect life. He became recognized as an astute naturalist, corresponded with internationally known scientists, and contributed valuable collections to the Philadelphia Academy of Science and the Smithsonian Institution. He was elected a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Academy, a rare honor for an amateur. His writings appeared in such national publications as the American Naturalist, the American Sportsman, and the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and his views on a variety of subjects, including politics, appeared in the Texas Almanac and in newspapers. Charles Darwin sponsored the publication of Lincecum’s controversial paper on the agricultural ant in the Journal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1862.

(via the Handbok of Texas Online)

PS: he was also into eugenics, an ardent campaigner for castration of criminals and “mental misfits.”

An excerpt from his biography:

from Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874: a biography
By Lois Wood Burkhalter