Talk on “Enhanced Oil Recovery in Malaysia - Challenges”
Venue:
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Wisma IEM, 04- TUSTD Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, 03- CSETD Lecture Room, 2nd Floor
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Date & Time:
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18 May 2016 (5:31 PM - 7:30 PM)
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CPD: |
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Closing Date Before: |
15-May-2016 (Subject to change based on availability of seat) |
Organised By |
Technical Division - Oil, Gas and Mining |
SYNOPSIS
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) refers to the most complex method of bringing the hydrocarbon to the surface. There are three levels of well development. “Primary” refers to conventional development wells. “Secondary” refers to Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) such as waterflooding or pressure maintenance. “Tertiary” or better known as EOR is proven to be effective with recovery factor reaching 50-80% as compared to other levels with recovery less than 40%.
Many of the fields in Malaysia has been produced for as long as 40 years and reaching the maturity with applied secondary levels. Newly discovered areas are highly challenging to be developed with extremely high CO2, high pressure and high temperature region, abnormal pressure zones, carbonates and/or deep water development.
In order to sustain the local production EOR is one of the major agenda in our Economic Transformation Program. It is one of the 13 Entry Points Project that supports the Oil, Gas and Energy NKEA (National Key Economic Areas). Even with the high recovery factor, EOR is still a very challenging program to be implemented in Malaysia due to the offshore environment, formation characteristics, high investment cost, and expertise availability. This talk shall focus on sharing the knowledge of what EOR is and the challenges of implementing it in Malaysia.
BIODATA OF SPEAKER
Ir. Razak Yakob was the Well Delivery Manager for the Enhanced Oil Recovery Centre (EORC) in 2012/2013. He was also the Senior Drilling Engineer for a Risk Service Contract Project in 2014/2015. Razak has been in the oil and gas industry for 19 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Talisman Energy, Petronas Carigali and EQ Petroleum/Uzma Engineering.
His core expertise is in Drilling Engineering with the working experiences spanning from development and exploration, technical support, training, competency development, finance and consultancy. As an independent consultant, he has worked in many parts of the world. He was a graduate of Colorado School of Mines in the United States with a degree majoring in Petroleum Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Design.
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