CO2 FLOODING SCHOOL

CO2 Flooding School

Course Schedule and Curriculum

(subject to change)

August 16-18 (19), 2011

Casper Petroleum Club

Day One – Tuesday, Aug 16, 2011: Overview of the Elements of CO2 Flooding

8:00 Welcome, Course Overview     Lon Whitman, Steve Melzer

8:30 Overview of EOR Techniques and the History and Current Statusof CO2 Flooding             Melzer

9:15 CO2 Demand, CO2 Sources, Natural and Anthropogenic (Man-Made)

and the Properties of CO2 Melzer

10:30 The Convergence of Carbon Management and CO2 EOR         Melzer

12:00 Break for Lunch

1:00 CO2 Transportation and Injection - Pipelines, Trucking, Metering   Melzer

1:45 Reservoir Response - Miscible, Immiscible, Gravity Stable, 

Processing Rates, Examples  Whitman, Melzer

2:00 CO2 Recycling, Plants & Processing - Dehydration, Sulfur/NGL Separation,

and Compression  Melzer

2:15 Downhole and Wellsite Equipment Practices  Robert Kiker

3:00 Key Elements of Reservoir Geology Melzer

4:30 Overview: The Business of CO2 Melzer

Wrap-up - Q&A

Day Two – Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011: Evaluating a Candidate Flood, Reservoir Response and Flood Operations

8:15 Flood Prospects: The Initial Evaluation and the Concept of Screening Melzer

9:30 Flow Units and Reservoir Compartmentalization Melzer

10:00 Geophysical Techniques Melzer

10:45 Modeling the Reservoir and Waterflood Response – Sweep Efficiency Concepts

and Rules of Thumb Melzer

11:15 Normalizing Flood Response – Actual Examples Melzer

12:00 Break for Lunch

1:00 Reservoir Surveillance and Pattern Balancing Melzer

1:45 CO2 Flood Simulation and Response Modeling Techniques    Melzer

2:30 CO2 Key Operation Features & Process Flows - Different Operators      Kiker

3:15 CO2 Gas Lift and Chemical Treatment        Ed Payne

4:15 Continuation of 2:30 topic: to include Dehydration, Compression, Sulfur Removal,

Nat’l Gas Liquids Capture, and Water Injection   Kiker

Day Three – Thursday, Aug 18, 2011: The Business of CO2 Flooding

8:15 Continuation of Day 2 (As necessary from Previous Day) Kiker/Payne

10:00 CO2 Flood Simulation and Response Modeling Techniques   Melzer

10:30 Land/Mineral Considerations Melzer

11:00 Fundamental of CO2 Supply Contracts Melzer

12:00 Lunch w/ Presentation on Wyoming Geology        Jim Steidtmann

1:30 Longevity of Example Floods Melzer

2:00 Parametric Sensitivities and Rates of Return Melzer

2:30 Major Elements of Costs/Revenue, LOEs Melzer

3:15 A View to the Future – ROZs and EOR Target Expansion      Melzer/Whitman

4:45 Day-by-Day Eval Forms

Wrap-up - Q&A, Certificates

Day Four (Attendance Optional) – Friday, Aug 19, 2011: Field Trip at Alcova Lake

8:00 – 1:30 Field Trip led by Mark Milliken – “From Tensleep to Chugwater: 200 Million Years of Geology by Boat”.  (Meet at Alcova Lakeside Marina at 8:00 am) Field trip followed by a Bar-B-Q sponsored by the NCG Consulting Group – www.theNCG.com