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: Design and Development reviews the factors that can contribute to poor waterflood performance and considers how they can be properly managed.
Features & Benefits
- 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
Audience
- 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
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: 127
Published: 2020
ISBN: 9781613998021
