Waterflooding Design And Development

• Reviews over a century of waterflooding practice with a focus on modern optimization strategies
• Identifies key factors leading to poor performance and how to effectively mitigate them
• Emphasizes multidisciplinary integration for designing successful waterflood projects
• Helps engineers understand the complex variables influencing long-term recovery
• Provides practical insight into managing and improving underperforming waterflood operations

• Reservoir and production engineers working on waterflood projects
• Field development planners aiming to improve recovery efficiency
• Asset teams troubleshooting underperforming waterflood operations
• EOR professionals focused on secondary recovery methods
• Graduate students and industry trainees studying waterflood optimization

Dave Chappell has spent his career working on waterflood developments and operations in Brunei, Oman, Thailand, and Australia. In 2003, he became one of the founding members of Shell’s central waterflood team tasked with improving waterflood performance across the entire Shell waterflood portfolio, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He went on to manage that group from 2008 until his retirement in 2018. Since then, he has worked as an independent consultant in the waterflood arena.