Waterflooding Surveillance And Remediation

• Outlines key components of effective waterflood surveillance and performance monitoring
• Explores diagnostic tools and workflows to detect and address underperforming areas
• Details remediation strategies to enhance sweep efficiency and improve recovery
• Supports proactive waterflood management through data-driven decision-making
• Helps engineers identify and correct issues early, reducing costs and extending field life

• Reservoir and production engineers managing waterflood projects
• Field operations teams conducting surveillance and diagnostics
• EOR specialists focused on optimizing secondary recovery methods
• Asset managers and planners seeking to improve field performance
• Students and early-career engineers learning waterflood management techniques

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.