This Energy training course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of water flooding as a secondary oil recovery method. It will cover the key concepts and practical aspects of this technique, aiming to enhance participants’ knowledge and skills in managing and optimizing water injection systems for improved oil recovery.
The objectives of the Water Flooding Management training course include:
- Understanding rock and fluid properties for better reservoir characterization
- Acquiring, analyzing, and managing water flood data
- Identifying factors that influence water flood recovery
- Assessing water flood production performance and making reservoir forecasts
- Monitoring water quality
- Optimizing water flood projects
- Exploring enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications as an extension of water flooding
- Reviewing field examples and case studies to apply theoretical knowledge
By the end of this Water Flooding Management training course, participants will be able to:
- Gain comprehensive knowledge of water injection technology and understand the complete water flooding process as a key method for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).
- Identify various reservoir drive mechanisms and production characteristics.
- Apply techniques to evaluate water flood performance efficiency and examine the design considerations for water injection systems.
- Understand the impact of reservoir and fluid characteristics on the injection process and how to correlate reservoir engineering data with injected water.
- Assess the effects of recovery factors and reserves, and explain the functioning of water injection systems based on different water sources and reservoir requirements.
- Demonstrate an understanding of pressure maintenance and oil displacement through injected fluids.
- Describe the water flooding process, including its design, operation, and monitoring aspects.
- Introduce the concept of immiscible gas injection in oil reservoirs, exploring techniques and calculation methods for immiscible gas/oil displacement, along with compositional effects.
- Discuss methods for monitoring the displacement process effectively.
- Understand the role of filters and deaeration in water injection systems, and identify the types of filters used.
- Examine seawater corrosion characteristics and the relationship between microbiological growth (such as bacteria, diatoms, and algae) and corrosion.
- Apply various tests to evaluate water quality, including sample collection, transportation, and testing frequencies for particle counts.
- Explore thermal methods of EOR, such as hot water and steam injection, and gain insights into the polymer injection process.
This Energy training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training course is designed as a blended environment of presentation, workshops, group work, practical exercises, field application/ analysis and several industry videos showing all processes, and general discussions.
This Energy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals (especially the engineers and technical staff whose responsibilities include the safe and cost-effective operation of water injection systems) but will greatly benefit:
- Petroleum, production & reservoir engineers
- Process engineers and field operation staffs
- Geologists and geophysicists
- Engineers who are new to the profession
- Corrosion personnel and chemical engineers
- Other individuals who need to know about waterflooding and waterflooding management
Day One: Water Flood Data Management - Data Acquisition, Analysis and Integration
- Reservoir rock properties
- Reservoir fluids properties
- Factors affecting in water flooding
Day Two: Screening for Waterflooding
- Drive mechanisms
- Reserves estimate and remaining reserves
- Reasons for water flooding and history
- Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance concept
- Reservoir engineering aspects and screening for water flooding
- Water injection systems – water source: produced water, aquifers and seawater - nature and composition of waters and seawater - matching reservoir requirements - water compatibilities and scale
- Water injection systems – basic water treatment - basic seawater treatment: filtration and deaeration
Day Three: Design Aspects of Water Injection System
- Reservoir-geology considerations in the design and operation of waterfloods
- Immiscible displacement theory
- Immiscible displacement in two dimensions-areal
- Vertical displacement in linear and areal models
- Fractional flow and performance measures
- Waterflood performance efficiencies
- Microscopic efficiency of immiscible displacement
- Macroscopic displacement efficiency of a linear waterflood
- Waterflood design
- Heterogeneity, flood pattern, recovery efficiency
- Candidates, patterns, and factors affecting pattern selection and well spacing
- Factor influencing water flood recovery
- Water flood production performance and reservoir forecast
- Waterflood monitoring
- Waterflood field-case-studies examples/ practices and problems
Day Four: Water Flooding Quality & Monitoring – What’s Next?
- Water quality and monitoring
- Corrosion problems (reasons and solutions)
- Field operation, water system, compatibility and treatment
- Various EOR processes and their recovery expectations, optimum time ..
- Introduction to chemical enhanced oil recovery techniques
- Polymer flooding
Day Five: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Applications as an Extension to the Waterflooding
- Surfactant flooding
- Alkaline flooding
- Hot water flooding
- Steam injection
- Water flood project optimization and economic evaluation
- Field examples and case histories