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Objectives

• Upon completion of this Course , the participants are expected to:
• Analyzing reservoirs .
• Performing test water floods .
• Determining injection profiles .
• Designing drilling patterns .
• Determining the reservoirs response to water influx .
• Water lifting/transfer from source location .
• Filtration .
• Chemical injection .
• Water property monitoring/recording .
• High – pressure, high – flow rate pumping equipment .
• Automated control of all equipment .
• Skilled operational personnel .
• Turnkey design, installation & operation of temporary injection facilities .
• Exposure to new technologies .
• Operations, Maintenance & Troubleshooting .
• Optimization of chemicals .
• Quality control .
• Typical issues related to HP multistage pumps .

The Delegates

• Reservoir engineers .
• Production engineers.
• Supervisors .
• Operators .
• Surface facilities personnel .

Contents

• Reservoir engineering fundamentals :
• Why waterflood?
• Material balance and reservoir pressure prediction
• Flow regimes – diffuse and segregated flow
• Injectivity/ productivity calculations for different pattern types
• Areal and vertical sweep efficiency, displacement efficiency, recovery efficiency
• Waterflood :
• The total system – injection, production, pattern
• Factors affecting optimization of the total system
• Waterflood design – a multi-disciplinary effort
• Waterflood patterns
• Operational constraints – waterflood offshore
• Fluid displacement in reservoir
• Reservoir fluid PVT properties; rock properties
• Material balance
• Mobility ratio
• Displacement efficiency Buckley-Leverett theory and Welge method
• Areal and vertical sweep efficiencies; oil recovery efficiency

 

• EOR methods
• EOR methods (description, classification and status), EOR reserves
• Screening criteria
• Environmental aspects of EOR methods
• Waterflood design. Factors to consider in selection of pattern type and size
• Analytical forecasting models: theory and application
• Pattern selection – Water injection
• Discounted cashflow analysis
• Selection of pattern based on economic criteria and operational constraints
• Displacement forces in the reservoir
• Capillary, viscous and gravitational forces
• Factors affecting phase trapping
• Mobilization and displacement of trapped phases
• Waterflood surveillance
• Decline curve analysis; injectivity and fall-off test analyses, Hall plot
• Infill drilling
• Waterflood Monitoring and Technology
• Selection criteria and design procedures
• Overview of waterflood facilities
• Reservoir Data Requirements for Waterflood Planning
• Facilities
• Tubular Goods into the Reservoir
• Microbiological Control of Waterfloods
• Scaling Issues

The Discount

10% in case of Three P. (or more)