About
Waterflooding has long been proven as the simplest and lowest-cost approach to maintaining production and increasing oil recovery from an oil reservoir. However, these benefits may fall short of expectations unless time-tested concepts and practices are clearly understood and judiciously implemented. These concepts and practices aim at process optimization—reducing production costs while minimizing waste and maximizing oil recovery and income.
This course is light on theory but heavy on proven and successful practices. Published case histories of projects around the world are reviewed to provide an understanding of different perspectives, what works where, what fails when, and why. The training covers all elements of a waterflood project from A to Z, including source water selection, produced water disposal, and everything in between. Participants are grouped into small multidisciplinary teams, and all classroom discussions and problem-solving sessions are handled in an asset management team format. Simulation studies are conducted in class to evaluate basic waterflooding physics and optimize the development of a hypothetical field.
The course covers conventional reservoirs.
*Disclaimer*
This course requires modifications for the Carbon Sequestration discipline. Click the "Request In-House Training" button for more details
Target Audience
Reservoir, production, facilities, and operations engineers who are involved with some aspects of a new or existing waterflood project; geoscientists and professionals who want to get a better feel for the entire process of planning, developing, managing, and recovery optimization of a waterflood project.
You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- List the kind of data needed to plan a waterflood
- Explain how to measure the importance of missing data
- Describe how to pay for the collection of important data
- List the choices that need to be considered in creating a robust waterflood design
- Explain why an exit strategy is important
- Describe how to create a waterflood design document that will remain relevant over the life of the flood