The course is suitable for reservoir, production, and facilities engineers and other professionals who are actively involved in designing waterflood projects. The course includes numerous practical waterflood exercises to help the participants understand the theoretical background and theories of performing waterflooding calculations.

The objective of the course is to provide the participants with a solid understanding of the challenges and solutions to numerous waterflooding issues. Examples, exercises, and hands-on reservoir simulation are used throughout the course to help participants with understanding all topics presented in this course.

• Factors to Consider in Waterflooding
  • Relative permeability and Relative Permeability Ratio
  • Rock Wettability
  • Capillary Pressure
  • Mobility Ratio
• Generating Relative Permeability from Field Observed Data
• Primary Reservoir-Driving Mechanisms
• Screening Tests
• Optimum Time to Waterflood
• Concept of Variable Bubble-point
• Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
  • Land’s Trapping Coefficient
  • Carlson’s Model
  • Killough’s Model
• Selection of Flooding Patterns
• Waterflood Pattern Balancing
• Overall Recovery Efficiency
  • Areal Sweep Efficiency
  • Vertical Sweep Efficiency
  • Displacement Sweep Efficiency
• Frontal Advance Equation
  • Buckley-Leverett Frontal Advance Theory
  • Water Saturation Profile and Water Breakthrough
  • Gas Fillup Volume
  • Performance of Waterflooding
• Water Injectivity
• Waterflooding Decline Curves Analysis
• Industry Well Established Waterflood Performance Methods
  • The Dykstra-Parsons Method
  • Modified Dykstra-Parsons Method
  • Craig-Geffen-Morse Method
• Improved Water Flood
  • Polymer Flood
  • Immiscible WAG
• Waterflooding Surveillance
  • Water-cut Analysis
  • Voidage-Replacement-Ratio
  • Monitoring layering performance
  • Bubble Maps
  • The ABC Plots
  • Step-Rate-Testing
  • Hall Plot
  • The X-Plot
• Reservoir Simulation- Waterflooding Team Project