GS 832: Geologic Carbon Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery

Syllabus​

Carbon capture, utilization and storage: Introduction to climate change, carbon budget and need for CCUS; Reservoir system for geological carbon storage; Carbon dioxide storage mechanisms and potential in India; Storage risk assessment, leakage and monitoringEnhanced petroleum recovery: Physical parameters, principles and techniques; Thermal EOR, Chemical EOR; Microbial EOR; Fluid injection EOR with thrust on CO2 EOR and field applications; EOR performance evaluation through reservoir simulation; Geomechanical constraints in EOR; Screening criteria for potential EOR projects; EOR case study; CO2 enhanced coalbed methane recovery mechanism and techniques; other unconventional hydrocarbon system exploitation; Numerical simulations, history matching and future prediction; Screening criteria for projects and case study; Global storage capacity and future developments; Key laboratory analysis.

Texts/References

  • Lake L W, Johns R, Rossen B, Pope G, Fundamentals of enhanced oil recovery, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2015.
  • Berend S, Reimer A J, Oldenburg C M, Introduction to carbon capture and sequestration, World Scientific, 2014
  • Bahadori A, Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery from Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2018.
  • Green DW, Willhite GP, Enhanced oil recovery, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1998.
  • Sheng J, Modern chemical enhanced oil recovery: theory and practice, 2010.
  • Sheng J, ed. Enhanced oil recovery field case studies, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2013.
  • Vishal V, Singh T N, eds., Geologic carbon sequestration: Understanding reservoir behaviour, Springer, 2016.
  • Zoback MD, Reservoir Geomechanics, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Zoback MD, Kohli A H, Unconventional Reservoir Geomechanics, Cambridge University Press, 2019.