The objective of the course is to provide the participants with a solid understanding of the challenges and solutions to numerous water flooding issues. Hands-on examples and exercises are used throughout the course to help participants with understanding all topics presented in this course.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Distinguish rock characteristics and fluid properties that control displacement of oil and thereby influence oil recovery
• Predict incremental oil recovery and develop production profile using required data and its sources
• Specify components of a well-designed water-flood plan
• Estimate injection water requirement, incremental oil production, and volumes of produced water
• Monitor water-flood performance and optimize oil recovery through new technology.
• Use reservoir simulation to address basic recovery mechanisms and optimization.
• Understand and practice the prediction and interpretation of oil & gas reservoirs under different known methods of water Injection.
• Review practices of the engineering aspects of water flooding and prediction the immiscible water flooding displacement process.
• Review primary recovery mechanisms through the fundamentals of rock and fluid interaction to the application of classical water flood prediction techniques.
• Technical knowledge of water flood pattern options and the effect of selection and orientation on flood performance.
• Discuss and explore the practical application of water flooding fundamental: Mobility Ratio; Reservoir Heterogeneity and Sweet Efficiencies in water flooding and flooding stages.
• Injection Wells Specifications, Control and Hall Plot as a Monitoring Tool of after Injection Wells.
• Explore practical reservoir management for mature water flooding.

Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, Facilities Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Research and Development Engineers, and operations who are involved with some aspects of a new or existing water flood project; geoscientists and professionals who want to get a better feel for the entire process of planning, development, management, and recovery optimization of a water flood project.

• General water flooding
• Overview of petroleum Geology and water flooding implications
• Review Data Requirements for reservoir description
• Rock properties and water flooding
• Production performance
• Analytical techniques
• Why is water and gas injection needed?
• Reservoir characterization and aquifer influence
• Water-displacing-oil flood mechanisms
• Design aspects
• Recovery expectations and production forecast
• Production engineering aspects and performance indices
• Associated problems and risks and ways to minimize impact
• Reservoir monitoring
• Optimization of oil recovery
• Review of case histories
• Oil recovery enhancement beyond water-flood
• Water flooding examples, reservoir monitoring and management

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.