Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices
Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices
OBJECTIVES
- Describe and apply surface and subsurface water flooding
- Understand and apply analytical and prediction methods
- Choose a candidate reservoir for water flooding
- Identify various components and function of a water flooding plant
- Identify water flood problems and how to solve them
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Petroleum Production & Reservoir Engineers
- Processing engineers & other discipline engineers
- Geologists & Petro physicists
- Engineers who are new to the profession
- Other individuals who need to know about water flooding
COURSE OUTLINE
Day One: Reservoir Properties and Design Factors of Water Flooding
- Definition and history of water flooding
- Water flood performance measurements
- Water sources of sweep water, good water and bad water
- Important factors to consider in water flooding design
- Types of water flood patterns and selection of a flood pattern
- Important rock/fluid properties for reservoir engineering calculation
Day Two: Frontal Displacement Theory and Water Flooding Injectivity
- Analytical models: Buckley-Leverett and Welge methods
- Calculation of time to breakthrough and cumulative water injected
- Calculation of water flood injectivity and stages of water flooding
- Prediction methods: Stiles, Craig-Geffen-Morse, and Dykstra-Parsons
- Calculation of areal and vertical sweep efficiencies
- Main reservoir problems of water flooding project
Day Three: Problems/Solutions of Water Flooding
- Phenomena of water fingering and tonguing
- Casing, tubing or packer leaks and channel flow behind casing
- Moving oil-water contact and watered-out layer without crossflow
- Fractures or faults between injector and producer
- Calculation of critical rate for water coning
- Using reservoir simulation for water flood optimization
Day Four: Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Surveillance of Water Flooding
- Monitoring water flood techniques and used tools
- Diagnostics, indicators, and surveillance of water flooding
- Well Diagnostics for water control using different ways
- Recovery plot, production history plot, and decline-curve analysis
- WOR diagnostic plot plus shut-in and choke-back analysis
- Special diagnostics for Vertical Communication
Day Five: Water Control Solutions
- Mechanical solutions for water-control problems
- Chemical solutions and squeeze cement treatments
- Rigid gels for near wellbore shutoff of excess water
- Injector problems and risk assessments
- Field-wide considerations for water flooding
- An integrated approach for cost saving operations