Practical Course on Waterflooding
Disciplines: Production and Operations
Course Description
This comprehensive course fills the gap for those asset team members who are responsible for managing water injection projects utilizing an integrated approach. This course is an introduction or refresher for the fundamental and practical aspects of waterflooding. There will be ample opportunity to partner with your asset team to generate ideas to optimize waterflood performance and field production by discussion in class. By the end of this course, participants will learn to develop integrated solutions by following a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach, and they will become knowledgeable about waterflood screening, design, implementation, and management.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Waterflood Management Concepts, Process and Prospect Screening
- Integrated Waterflood Technology- Geoscience and Engineering, Reservoir Heterogeneity
- Waterflood Data Gathering
- Mechanism of Immiscible Fluid Displacement
- Factors Influencing Waterflood Recovery, Prediction of Waterflood
- Infill Drilling, Flood Patterns, Sweep Efficiency
- Prediction of Waterflood Performance and Reserves Forecast
- Design of Waterfloods: Geological, Engineering, and Operational Aspects
- Waterflooding Surveillance Techniques, Analysis and Optimization
- Field Operations, Waterflood Facilities, Water Quality Requirements, Injection Rates and Pressures
- Discussion of Why Some Waterfloods Fail?
- Waterflood Project Economics – Brief Discussion
- Waterflood Case Studies
- Current and Future Challenges
Learning Level
Introductory to Intermediate
Course Length
2 days
Why Attend
- Learn fundamental and practical aspects of waterflooding
- Develop and design a successful waterflood
- Use effectively analytical tools to enhance field performance
- Understand the use and misuse of reservoir simulation in waterflood design
- Perform surveillance, analysis and optimization of waterflooding
Who Attends
This course is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists, facilities engineers, D&C engineers, technologists, and anyone who wants to understand the practical aspects of Waterflood for conventional & unconventional Reservoirs.
Special Requirements
None; however, knowledge of basic petroleum engineering terminology will be helpful.
CEUs
1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 2-day course.
Additional Resources
This course has supplemental books located in our SPE Bookstore entitled Waterflooding and The Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Waterflooding, Second Edition. Please check out these valuable resources!
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.
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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.
Instructors
Dr. Ganesh Thakur is a world-recognized leader in reservoir engineering and management, EOR, CCS and CCUS. He is the Director of Energy Industrial Partnerships & Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston. He began his professional career at SSI in Denver, Colorado in 1973 after receiving a PhD in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and specializing in EOR. He worked for BP/Amoco in the research department, and in 1977 joined Chevron, where he worked for 37 years and advanced to the highest level technical professional as VP – Reservoir Management, Global Advisor and Fellow. Most of his current work relates to EOR, IOR, reservoir engineering and management, reserves evaluation, due diligence, unconventional oil and gas field development, CCS and CCUS, and expert witness. He has written more than 100 technical papers and presidential articles, several books, holds a number of patents, and has presented over 200 lectures and short courses around the world. His numerous honors include the 2005 SPE Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, SPE Legion of Honor, and Honorary Membership Award. He served as the 2012 President of SPE International, and the SPE Foundation President in 2020 and 2021. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and National Academy of Inventors in 2022. Currently he serves as the VP of TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology), and he will become the President in January 2025.
Dr. Ted Frankiewicz is a SPE Distinguished Lecturer on Produced Water Treatment in 2009-10, and serves on the SPE Steering Committee for their Global Workshop Series on Water Treatment. He has over 30 years of experience in the oil industry with Occidental Petroleum, Unocal Corp., Natco Group (now Cameron), and currently, SPEC Services, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago, holds 15 patents, and has authored over 25 professional publications. At Unocal, he was responsible for developing the water treatment systems, which were installed in the Gulf of Thailand to remove mercury and arsenic as well as residual oil from the produced water. At Natco Group he developed an effective vertical column flotation vessel design and used CFD to diagnose problems with existing water treatment equipment as well as to design new equipment. His field/operational experience in oilfield chemistry, design of process equipment, and the development of process systems has provided him with unique insights into the issues that challenge operators as their water production and water treatment complexity and cost escalates over time.
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