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2024

Water Flooding

Code: Technical

Duration: 5 Days

Location: Doha

Fee: QAR 12,900

Course Overview

This highly informative training course is designed to provide design aspects required for successful water flooding plus main reasons for failures.  It presents a comprehensive coverage of analytical and applied aspects of water flooding including rock and fluid properties, theory, prediction methods of Stiles, Craig-Geffen-Morse, and Dykstra-Parsons, surface production facilities, and water flood problems and optimization. Water affects every stage of oilfield life from exploration through development, production, and finally to abandonment.The training course covers process description, pattern selection, injectivity issues, and design’s procedure. Furthermore, the training course provides all components of produced water analysis and its required chemical treatment unit. It describes important measurements of water flooding to identify main problems, examine treatments and provide solutions.  Actual field cases for optimum application will be explained with in-class exercises.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
  • 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 Contents

Module (01) 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
Module (02) 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
Module (03) 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
Module (04) 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
 Module (05) 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

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