Waterflooding: Performance Predictions and Surveillance
- Waterflooding course covers reservoir engineering aspects in clastic and carbonate reservoirs.
- Participants learn oil displacement by water and techniques for recovery estimation.
- Course includes predictions of oil and water producing rates and recovery efficiency.
- Surveillance techniques provided for efficient management of waterfloods.
- Designed for engineers and geologists at any experience level.
Overview
The Waterflooding Training Course focuses on teaching participants fundamental concepts of oil displacement by water and techniques for estimating recovery, evaluating behavior, and monitoring performance of waterflood projects. The 5-day course covers reservoir engineering aspects of waterflooding in different types of reservoirs, combining geology, rock and fluid properties, and displacement theory. It aims to provide engineers and geologists, regardless of experience level, with the knowledge and skills to confidently design, analyze, and optimize waterflood projects.
Who should attend
Engineer, Geologist
Course Content
This Waterflooding: Performance Predictions and Surveillance 5-day course covers the reservoir engineering aspects of waterflooding in clastic and carbonate reservoirs. The seminar combines geology, rock and fluid properties, and immiscible displacement theory to develop waterflooding prediction techniques and to aid in the evaluation of actual waterflood performance behaviour. Detailed predictions of oil and water producing rates, water injection rates and recovery efficiency are presented. Selection of waterflood patterns (regular, irregular, peripheral), prediction of sweep efficiency (areal, vertical and displacement), and an analysis of other variables which control recovery efficiency are included. Also discussed are waterflood surveillance techniques such as production testing, production plots (rate-time, rate-cum, WOR-cum, etc.), VRR analysis, volumetric sweep (reservoir conformance) determination, injection profile testing, pressure transient testing, step-rate testing, Hall plots (pros and cons), pattern balancing, bubble maps, and injection efficiency determination. These surveillance techniques provide the engineer with data required for the efficient management of both new and mature waterfloods. The course content and example problems have been selected to teach and illustrate important concepts.
TOPICS
- Factors controlling waterflood recovery
- Review of rock properties and fluid flow
- Determination of oil in place
- Mechanism of immiscible fluid displacement (displacement sweep)
- Flood patterns (regular and irregular) and impact on areal sweep efficiency
- Injection rates and pressures
- Reservoir heterogeneity
- Waterflood performance prediction
- Waterflood surveillance
Who Should Attend
Additional Information
By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding of:
- How water displaces oil in porous media
- How to estimate water floodable oil
- How to estimate oil recovery by waterflooding
- How to monitor, analyse and optimise current waterflood projects
Theoretical concepts are clearly explained and examples used to demonstrate oil displacement by water. The concepts are presented individually; so you will have a complete understanding of displacement principles and how they affect oil recovery when designing or analysing a waterflood project
