The course is suitable for reservoir, production and facilities engineers and other professional who are actively involved in designing waterflood projects. The course will provide the participants with hands-on experiences in optimizing the performance of waterflooding and maximizing oil recovery using a black-oil simulator.

The objective of the course is to provide the participants with a solid understanding of the challenges and solutions to numerous waterflooding issues. Hands-on examples and exercises are used throughout the course to help participants with understanding all topics presented in this course. The format for the reservoir simulation exercises is based on grouping participants into small multi-disciplinary teams.

• Factors to Consider in Waterflooding
• Primary Reservoir-Driving Mechanisms
• Optimum Time to Waterflood
• Selection of Flooding Patterns
• Overall Recovery Efficiency
  • Areal Sweep Efficiency
  • Vertical Sweep Efficiency
  • Displacement Sweep Efficiency
• Frontal Advance Equation
• Fluid Injectivity
• Stiles’ Method
• The Dykstra-Parsons Method
• Craig-Geffen-Morse Method
• Reservoir Conformance
  • Conformance Problems
  • Methods of Improving Conformance
• Waterflooding Surveillance
• Hall Plot
• The X-Plot
• Pattern Balancing
• Reservoir Simulation-Waterflooding Team Project