Waterflooding Injection Regime And Injection Wells

• Explores the differences between matrix and fractured injection regimes and their operational impacts
• Provides insight into how injection strategy influences waterflood efficiency and sweep effectiveness
• Identifies challenges related to injectivity, pressure management, and conformance
• Supports better decision-making in injection well design and optimization
• Enhances understanding of how subsurface dynamics and well architecture affect overall recovery

• Reservoir engineers evaluating and selecting appropriate injection strategies
• Production and operations engineers managing water injection systems
• Field development teams designing or modifying injection wells
• EOR specialists optimizing injection patterns for improved sweep
• Engineering students focused on advanced recovery techniques and well performance

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.