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: Injection Regime and Injection Wells explores the benefits and drawbacks of both matrix and fractured injection and reviews the impacts that these injection regimes can have on waterflood performance.
Features & Benefits
- 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
Audience
- 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
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: 121
Published: 2020
ISBN: 9781613997987
