Course Outline:

• Introduction.

• 1. Water-flooding, status of water-flooding, water-flood systems, improved water-flood technology.

• Water-flood evaluation.

• 1. Volumetric analysis, reservoir bulk volume, saturation distribution.
  2. Material balance analysis.
  3. Water-flood patterns.
  4. Injection rate estimation.
  5. Recovery efficiency, displacement efficiency, areal sweep efficiency, vertical sweep efficiency.
  6. Water-flood performance projection methods.

• Water-flood monitoring and management.

• 1. Monitoring water supply & water quality.
  2. Monitoring injection well performance, injection well completion, testing and measurement, performance analysis.
  3. Monitoring production well performance.
  4. Monitoring surface production, surface production facilities, production stream treatment, quality and quantity measurement.
  5. Reservoir process analysis, pattern performance analysis, reservoir fluid movement.

• Water-flood enhancement strategies.

• 1. Pilot and field tests, flooding fractured reservoirs.
  2. Injection and production profile, injection profile modification, production profile modification.
  3. Flood pattern modification, injection and production well placement, infill drilling.