Epic Hosts CO₂ Workshop - Registration Closed

We invite you and your associates to our workshop covering an overview of the principles of implementing a CO₂ flood. The workshop agenda is as follows:

1. Introduction and Background
2. The Demonstrated Success of CO₂ Flooding in a 25 Dollar (C) Environment
3. The Components of CO₂ Flooding
   • CO₂ Sources (Pure and Impure).
   • CO₂ Transportation
   • Flooding/Storage
   • Processing/Recycle
4. CO₂ Flood Recovery - Rules of Thumb
5. Economics - Parametric Sensitivities
6. CO₂ Operations: Requirements - Beyond Waterflooding
7. Gaining Operational Experience
   • Subsurface, Reservoir Re-Pressurization, Injection Wells, Production Wells, Dry and Wet Gathering Lines, CO₂ Handling, Wellheads, Metering, Dehy, Skids, H and S
   • Conformance control
8. Optimizing Flooding Success
   • Connecting Sources to Floods, Reservoir Screening Criteria, Elements of CO₂ Contracting
9. The New Environment and Implications for CO₂ Flooding Expansion
   • Oil Price Forward Curve, Unconventional CO₂ flooding, Anthropogenic Sources and Sequestration
10. Misc. Topics/Discussion and Summary

Field examples will be presented. This course will be of interest to anyone who wants to know about the challenges and successes of CO₂ flooding from a technical perspective.

Time: 8:00am – 4:30pm                 Lunches: Included
Cost: $950/person in advance
Limited Seating: first 40 registrants only.

Register via:
website: Online Registration - this page
Phone: (403) 444-1400 or
Fax: (403) 444-1424

Registration Deadline: April 30, 2008

Registration for the workshop is now closed. Thank you for your interest. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Steve Melzer's Bio

Steve Melzer is a practicing geological engineer in Midland, Texas. He formed a consulting engineering company in 1997 to deal exclusively in the rapidly growing industry of CO₂ flooding. He is also a past Director of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin's Center for Energy and Economic Diversification where he led oil and gas research projects and was the founding director of the initial CO₂ Flood Conference in 1995, a position he retains today. The Conference has grown through the years to possess an audience of more than 200 persons and has attendees come from around the world.

Steve is a graduate of Texas A&M (receiving his bachelor of science degree in geological engineering in May of 1968) and Purdue University where he received his Masters in Engineering (soil and rock mechanics). He served with the US Air Force from 1969 1978 where he conducted site selection and ground shock engineering research at Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque.

Steve formed an oil and gas development company in 1978 and established operations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The company continues to this day although primarily an energy investment company.

He has resided in the headquarters city of the Permian Basin, Midland, Texas since 1978.

Rebecca Larkin's Bio

Currently she is the production engineer for Kinder Morgan CO₂ Company, LP on the West Texas SACROC Unit, the oldest active CO₂ flood in the world and still producing over 30,000 bpd. Her responsibilities include WAG management, artificial lift enhancement, well work design, field facility modification, and inventory tracking -- to name a few. Her experience includes operations, production and drilling assignments on primary, secondary and tertiary projects throughout the Permian Basin for Amoco, Chevron, Pennzoil, PennzEnergy, Devon and now Kinder Morgan. For the past ten years, she has worked exclusively on the SACROC Unit and as she says, "trying to save the Titanic just one more year". She studied Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University and Geological Engineering at Michigan Tech University. Her expertise includes "Wells and Surface Equipment" and a developed do's and don'ts list, based upon the issues faced and experience gained at the SACROC flood which should help the audience develop their own best practices.