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Waterflooding Design & Optimization

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By Islam Fawaz
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Islam Fawaz
Senior Reservoir Engineer
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What you'll learn

➢ How proper reservoir characterization can greatly affect waterflood design and performance monitoring.
➢ How to estimate reserves using the industry standard techniques – Class problem
➢ Evaluate reservoir drives to confirm water injection requirements - Case study
➢ Learn step-by-step how to design waterflood projects.
      • Data requirements and timing to start water injection
      • Methods to control water injection volumes and pattern balancing
      • How to estimate expected incremental oil recovery, using various analytical methods such as;
Buckley-Leverett, Dykstra-Parsons, and Stiles methods – Class problems
➢ How to monitor the performance of waterflood project to achieve the highest oil recovery, including:
      • Pressure history and Voidage Replacement Ratio’s (VRR’s) calculations.
      • How to evaluate injected water quality and to select proper water filter size
      • How to use conformance plots to evaluate performance and make waterflood design
adjustments to improve performance
      • Use the Hall Plot and PLT to propose workovers for production optimization – class problem
      • A review of a unique water injection problem for a formation expending a check valve effect!!
      • The review and revise water injection pattern, if necessary
➢ Myths of waterflooding Patterns

Description

Waterflooding has been recognized as the most popular improved oil recovery methodology worldwide. This
course covers the concept of waterflood management with emphasis on reservoir engineering and surface
facilities aspects. It combines definition and the required activities of waterflood management, plus
engineering aspects of immiscible displacement theory, including Buckley-Leverett & Weldge models.


Participants will learn the waterflood patterns, be it regular, irregular, or peripheral; and its effects on the
selection and orientation of flood performance. Other concepts that will be covered are the classical
waterflood predictions of linear fractional flow theory and prediction of sweep efficiency including areal,
vertical and displacement.


In addition, waterflood surveillance techniques such as production testing, production plots, VRR Analysis,
volumetric sweep determination, injection profile testing, pros and cons of Hall plots, pattern balancing,
bubble maps, and injection efficiency determination will be discussed. The course contents are designed as
an interactive tool with actual industry videos and concrete examples to provide clear illustration of
important aspects and concepts of waterflooding.

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