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Richard Baker

Waterflood Design Surveillance and Implementation

Richard Baker
9:57 Hours
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This intermediate-level course on Waterflood Design, Surveillance, and Implementation offers practical, case study-based learning for reservoir engineers looking to optimize oil recovery using waterflooding techniques. It covers the fundamentals of waterflood mechanics, operational factors, and different approaches tailored for various reservoir types including conventional, fractured, and tight formations. The course emphasizes reservoir surveillance and diagnosing performance issues often overlooked in traditional simulation-focused studies. Learners will explore production profiles, recovery factors, and flood pattern designs through real-world field examples and recommended workflows. The objective is to equip engineers with skills to effectively monitor, forecast, and enhance waterflood performance in diverse and complex reservoirs.

Who Should Take This Course
• Intermediate reservoir engineers
• Petroleum engineers focused on EOR
• Professionals managing waterflood projects
• Engineers seeking practical field examples

What You Will Learn
• Designing and optimizing waterflood patterns
• Field-based reservoir surveillance techniques
• Waterflood flow mechanics and operational factors
• Production profile analysis and recovery estimation

Why This Course Works
• Diagnose and resolve reservoir heterogeneity issues
• Enhance reservoir monitoring and forecasting skills
• Improve oil recovery through optimized waterflooding
• Use practical case studies over purely theoretical methods

1.01 Intro to Waterflood Design & Workflows (20 min.) 
1.02 Finding Analogy (16 min.)
1.03 Analogue Pools & Controlling Factors (24 min.)
1.04 Production Profiles (20 min.)
1.05 Field Example 2 – East Swan Hills (14 min.)
1.06 Bubble Maps (12 min.)
1.07 Gas Collapse and Fill-up (19 min.)
1.08 The Effect of Depletion on Volumetric Sweep (11 min.)
1.09 Building a Forecast on Excel (10 min.)

2.01 Volumetric Sweep (20 min.)
2.02 Reservoir Controlling Factors Revisited (13 min.)
2.03 Differences of Water Wet & Oil Wet Systems (17 min.)
2.04 Sweep Efficiency (22 min.)

3.01 Use of Bubble Maps to Estimate Reservoir Flow Mechanics (12 min.)
3.02 Recovery Factor vs HCPVI Plots (23 min.)
3.03 Measured Pressure Scatter (7 min.)
3.04 Forecasting & Optimization (10 min.)

4.01 Decline Analysis for Waterfloods (29 min.)
4.02 Selection of Decline Correlation (14 min.)
4.03 Decline Analysis Examples (27 min.)
4.04 Recap Of Lessons So Far (16 min.)

5.01 Decline Analysis Case Study – Wainwright Field (14 min.)
5.02 Waterflood Response & Water Fencing Case Study – Keybob South Field (16 min.)
5.03 Waterflood Response & Water Fencing Case Study – Keybob South Field Continued (14 min.)
5.04 Waterflood Response & Water Fencing Case Study – Chauvin South Field (12 min.)
5.05 Conformance Plots & Throughput Rate (17 min.)
5.06 Hall Plots (16 min.)

6.01 Injection Induced Fractures (16 min.)
6.02 Analysis of Injection Pressures and Rates (23 min.)
6.03 Example of Interference Tests in the Spraberry (11 min.)
6.04 Fracture Length and Complexity (8 min.)
6.05 Course Recap (19 min.)

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