ONLINE LIVE STREAMING COURSE
5 Sessions in real time (approx 4 hrs/each session), August 7th to 11th, 2023
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Geologists and reservoir engineers who want to understand the fundamental controls on water injection and waterflooding, and how to plan and predict performance of oil reservoirs selected as waterflooding candidates. The course is designed not only for those entering the technology of waterflooding but on re-enforcing known techniques for the waterflood practitioner. The course covers four areas that a waterflood practitioner should understand: impacts of geology (including rock properties) and fluid properties, performance prediction, design, and performance measurement.
OBJECTIVES:
This class is designed to give the waterflood practitioner knowledge of what is important to waterflood design and operation.
- Fluid and rock properties
- Injection water and chemistry
- Geology
- Measures of heterogeneity
- Recovery processes
- Buckley Leveret, Welge, stiles and Dykstra parsons
- Concept of fractional flow
- Injection philosophy
- Flood design
- Wells
- Surveillance
- Field histories
Schedule
Day 1
- Introduction
- Why Waterflood
- Fluid and Rock Properties
Day 2
- Injection water sourcing
- Rock and fluid chemistry issues
Day 3
- Geology
- Heterogeneity
- Dykstra-Parsons Coefficient
- Flow-storage Capacities (Lorenz Curve)
- Lorenz Coefficient
- Koval Heterogeneity Factor
- Recovery Processes
- Buckley-Leverett/Welge/Stiles/Dykstra-Parsons
- Fractional Flow
- Volumetric Analysis
- Voidage Replacement
- Injection Philosophy
- Fractured Injection/Matrix Injection
- Fracture Pressure (test types)
- Water Quality
Day 4
- Flood Design
- Pattern Selection
- Well spacing
- Sweep
- Pilots
- Wells
- Vertical wells/Horizontal Wells
- Completions
- Lift
- Conversions
- Smart Wells
- Remediations
- Waterflood Surveillance
- Data collection
- Data Analysis
- Performance Plots
Day 5
- Surveillance Techniques – types and analysis
- Water Treatment
- Field Histories
- Operations
- Injection measurement
- Production measurement
- Water quality
- Water system availability
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Benefits
- You will learn the geological controls on flooding
- Learn about Heterogeneity measures
- Learn about techniques to estimate flood recovery
- Learn about typical surveillance techniques to monitor flood performance
- Learn about the role that water treatment has on waterflood performance and Opex
Course content includes:
- Fluid and rock properties important to waterflooding
- Considerations on injection water sourcing
- Measures of heterogeneity in rocks
- Analytical recovery methods for estimating waterflood performance
- Matrix vs fractured injection
- Water quality effects on flood performance
- Flood design
- Surveillance techniques
