Currently, the centre is working on a project titled "Physical and Numerical Models for Un-conventional Flood Patterns". The project relates to increasing country's currrent oil production by means of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. This involves understanding the flow through the porous rock bed and implementing strategies for the locations of injection and production wells.

Historically, there are three oil production processes:

Primary Oil Recovery,
Secondary Oil Recovery and
Tertiary Oil Recovery.

Primary production resulted from the displacement energy naturally existing in a reservoir. Secondary recovery, the second stage of operation, usually was implemented after primary production declined. Traditionally, secondary recovery processes are water flooding and gas injection, although the term secondary recovery is now synonymous with water flooding. Tertiary recovery is that which is performed after water flooding (or whatever secondary process is used). Tertiary process use miscible gases, chemicals and/or thermal energy to displace additional oil after secondary recovery process become uneconomical. EOR belongs to the tertiary oil recovery process.