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: Surveillance and Remediation describes the various elements that could be included as components in a waterflood-management surveillance plan and reviews the options available to improve flood performance.
Features & Benefits
- 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
Audience
- 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
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: 9781613998069
