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In Introduction to Heavy Oil, you'll learn ...
- How heavy oils form, migrate and accumulate in reservoirs
- The primary recovery processes for oil sands
- The operating principles and relative merits of waterflood, CO2 flood, chemical flood, vapor extraction and thermal recovery
- Newly developed recovery processes, including Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI), THAI with solid catalyst (CAPRI), and Steam Solvent Based Hybrid processes
Overview
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Credit: 8 PDH
Length: 101 pages
Heavy oil is a large component of the world's oil resources. Commercial mining and current in-situ thermal production methodologies are important contributors to the world's oil production. These technologies are reasonably recent commercial applications, and the future levels of production face uncertainty because of highly debated environmental challenges.
This course takes an unbiased practical approach to the applications, citing benefits and limitations. Introduction to Heavy Oil provides an overview of the aspects of the geology, development and commerciality of heavy oil resources. This course is designed to provide technical professionals with an overview of upstream heavy-oil production methods and will introduce new upstream production technologies that have been developed in the last several years.
This course is written at a Basic level, but is sufficiently detailed and widely focused to appeal to a broad audience seeking an introduction to heavy oil.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe key properties of heavy oil, including density and viscosity.
- Explain how viscosity affects production rates.
- Summarize the basics of heavy oil production profiles.
- Describe primary recovery processes, including horizontal and multilateral wells and Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS).
- Explain the chemical properties and composition of heavy oil.
- Classify reservoir hydrocarbon fluids.
- Describe heavy oil geology fundamentals.
- Summarize heavy oil production and processing schemes and completion methods.
- Explain emulsion control and treatment.
- Describe facility design and operations for heavy oil processing.
- Identify the various types of reservoir traps.
- Estimate the volume and production of oil sands.
- Analyze production decline curves.
- Compare thermal and nonthermal enhanced recovery processes.
- Describe lifting methods, including gas lift, sucker rod pumps, progressive cavity pumps, and electrical submersible pumps.
- Explain sand management strategies and sand control techniques.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 40 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 8 PDH
Length: 101 pages
