With the maturity of oil fields comes more and more operational constraints mainly due to increased water production, depletion of reservoir pressure, and external materials injected into the reservoir for stimulation and EOR activities. The solution to these problems requires skills in identifying the source of the problem and judicial use of chemicals and treatment methods to maintain production.  Chemicals used for controlling corrosion, emulsions, foaming, mineral scales, paraffin (waxes), asphaltenes, gas hydrates, hydrogen sulfide scavengers, and water clarifiers are covered in this course.

The course includes methods to determine the need for chemical treatment, how to select the proper chemicals, and how testing for chemical compatibility with the formation and other chemicals is performed.

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This course utilizes the techniques for design and performance analysis of the production system starting from the formation up to the wellhead/separator. The topics include the production systems that integrate the flow of single-phase or two-phase fluids to wellbore and from wellbore bottom to wellhead/separator. This teaches various flow regimes and models to derive inflow performance relationships and vertical flow relationships, combination of which gives the well deliverability. 

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