About
This 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 course covers process description, pattern selection, injectivity issues, and design’s procedure. Furthermore, the 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.
This course will feature:
- Basics rock and fluid properties controlling water flooding
- Selection a candidate reservoir for water flood and design criteria
- Components of water flood plant and stages of actual field case application
- Calculation of water flooding injectivity and conductance ratio
- Diagnostics, indicators, and surveillance
- Surface facilities and water flood plant
- Analytical and prediction methods: Stiles, CGM, and Dykstra-Parsons
By the end of this course, 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
This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- 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
This course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is designed as a blended environment of presentation, class exercises, field application/ analysis and several industry videos showing all processes.
Day One
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
Day Two
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
Day Three
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
Day Four
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
Day Five
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
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
