This Petrogenium course is designed for cross disciplined technical staff to provide a basis of understanding for the topics covered.
The course presents real and relevant examples to illustrate key concepts, supported by practical exercises to reinforce participants’ understanding. It covers the evaluation and application of waterflooding, the principles of subsurface design including its timing, purpose, and implementation, the complexities involved in injectant delivery and specification, and approaches to monetizing field value through waterflooding.
The case for waterflooding
The basics of oil recovery
Properties and genesis of oil
Rock and water properties
Imbibition/Drainage process
Capillary trapping
Aspects of sweep
The physics of immiscible displacement
Darcy’s law
Relative permeability and wettability
Fractional flow
Application of BLW
Exercise 01: Estimate a waterflood forecast range
The importance of Chemistry
Water properties
Ion concentration and distribution
Mixing and scaling tendency
Geochemistry
Sandstones: Types of clays which can impact flooding
Carbonates: Salinity and pH
Exercise 02: Estimate the clay swelling potential for a proposed waterflood
Geomechanics:
In-situ stress
Impact of depletion and cooling
Matrix injection design attributes
Fracturing injection design attributes
Geology and Geophysics:
Yes, Geology is important
The role of Geophysics in waterflooding
Flood design:
Throughput vs recovery
Determining the volume of required injection water
Estimate number of wells and how to optimise cash flow
Pattern selection
Impact of well cost
Traditional patterns, the pros and cons
Matrix vs fracturing
Phasing
Repurposing
Exercise 03: Propose the waterflood pattern and recovery forecast for a newly discovered field
Well selection:
Well orientation
Well completion aspects
Sand control
Crossflow
Zone selectivity
“smart” components
Gauges, fibre and tracers
Facilities Specification:
Specifying the required water quality
Facility/process options
Operability
Green or Brown?
Exercise 04: Select the required process
Waterflood Management:
Determining the gearing ratios
Defining critical equipment
Key aspects to monitor
The use of dashboards
Exercise 05: Identify what went wrong and propose how to fix it
Delivery Options & Upcoming Dates
In-House / On-Site Training
Tailored to Your Team
This course can be tailored and delivered at your own facility — adapted to your specific units, equipment, and team experience level. We come to you, wherever you are in the world.
All content can be customised for awareness, intermediate, or experienced staff. Post-course consultancy and help-desk support is also available.