Description
Used successfully for more than a century, waterflooding remains the most widely performed process relying on an external energy source to maximize reservoir recovery. Multiple factors across a wide range of disciplines contribute to the delivery of a fully optimized project, but not all of these critical success factors have been well-documented. A focus on further optimizing all the varying parts of the process has emerged over time to deliver project success. Waterflooding: Chemistry explores in detail the significant impacts that chemistry-related issues can have on the progress of waterflood projects.
Features & Benefits
- Examines the critical role of chemistry in waterflood project performance and longevity
- Identifies key chemical challenges such as scaling, souring, and compatibility issues
- Provides strategies to prevent or mitigate chemistry-related failures in water injection systems
- Highlights the importance of fluid compatibility and treatment in optimizing recovery
- Supports improved decision-making through deeper understanding of chemical impacts on reservoir behavior
Audience
- Reservoir and production engineers managing waterflood operations
- Chemical and process engineers involved in water treatment and fluid management
- EOR professionals addressing operational issues in secondary recovery projects
- Field personnel responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting water quality
- Students and researchers studying the chemical aspects of enhanced oil recovery
About the Author
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.
Details
Type: Softcover
Size: 6x9
Pages: 126
Published: 2020
ISBN: 9781613997949
